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Our Story...Just Begun? � � (musings on Neanderthals)

" They were huge hulking pale-skinned beasts
thick bow-legs like gnarly tree trunks
not like us... night-black, swift and sleek,
some women, son, thought they were hunks.
Yeah, said to produce fine fit bucks...
but had no savvy, do ye see, son
for bows, boomerangs, arrows and such.
Brains? thick as hide o' �rhino's
and slow, slow as an old dodo
they had no go, just couldn't run...

But they drew some fame, great big feasts
with downed mammoths, girt bloody chunks
on fires running with sweet, sweet, grease,
them, stomp, stomp, dance round trophy trunks.
Since they moved I swear my belly shrunk!
So, where they gone my dim, pale, son
or, still here, skulking round like skunks?
But, come on son we gotta go
get this deer home, sun's getting low...
their story ending? �Ours... just begun? "

Written by Rew

Published 22nd May 2024

Author's Note

It would take a lot of reading of this
and other articles to get where the
narrator is at.

Are there any facts here?
Paleoanthropologists have gone on record
to give us their size (much bigger and more robust than us)
and commented on bone injury resemblances to those
of bronco busters in rodeos.

White or Black.

Skin pigmentation found on preserved scraps
strongly suggests that they were white
while all Homo sapiens (us) were all black.
(35 to 40.000+) years ago.)

They almost certainly didn't have
the advanced technology that we had.
Bow & arrow, bolas etc but relied mainly
on brute strength allied to short stabbing spears,
sharpened and fire hardened wood
and the usual stone axe, awl , punch, scrappers, knife etc.

Cross breading? Almost certainly.
Reposted.