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483: No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone
No Such Thing As A Fish
The Evolution of the Neanderthal Dates
I was reading about a Neanderthal site in Croatia called Crap in a Cave. And what I found is that they found coprolites in there. So that suggests that Neanderthals might have actually crept in a cave. They might have been the Iberian Peninsula, but I just... Was it somewhere island-y where things kind of cling on a bit? Yeah, it's probably just the south. But also, we just don't know, actually. The dates are consciously shifting. It would take you a lot for me to realize that Crapina, which is an integral part of my research, is actually crap. That's so good. You're very welcome.
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Speaker 2
So
Speaker 3
brain must be a really good word for it. Yeah. It's actually a rubbish word, isn't it? Yeah. You're very able to come up with something better than that. Yeah. Idiot. One of the names that the Neanderthal could have had was Gibraltar man, Hammer Gibraltar, or whatever. Okay. Because the first... I think the first skulls were found in Gibraltar, but they were found too early. And they were found by, I think, a soldier and he was a soldier and geologist. And he said, I think this might be something new, but he didn't really get anywhere, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1
I think there was a few that were found technically before, but they just didn't identify that. I think there was one in... I think there should be one as well, which is Belgium. I think that's also an early one. Yeah. Where they just
Speaker 3
didn't... Oh, Flint. Oh, he's named Edmund Flint, which is a nice prehistoric sounding name. He's like, he's from the Flintstones. Yeah, he does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he found it, but again, he didn't get anywhere. And actually, I think the last Neanderthal has also lived in Gibraltar. Well, yeah. That's... Oh. I
Speaker 1
disagree with that. Oh. Go on. No, I think so. I think the team out there really believed that, but I don't think most of the rest of us believe that. I think we think it's a tosser. They might have been the Iberian Peninsula, but I
Speaker 3
just... Was it somewhere island-y where things kind of cling on
Speaker 1
a bit? Yeah, it's probably just the south. But also, we just don't know, actually. The dates are consciously shifting. When I say that, I mean, that when the scientists are dating them, they're realizing that all the dates we thought we had
Speaker 2
are kind of not as great, shall we say. There's many question marks about these dates. I was reading about a Neanderthal site in Croatia called Crap in a Cave. Yeah. And what I found is that they found coprolites in there. So that suggests that Neanderthals might have actually crept in a cave. Do you know what? It
Speaker 1
would take you a lot for me to realize that Crapina, which is an integral part of my research, is actually crap. I had never in all my years realized
Speaker 5
that before. That's so good. Thank
Speaker 1
you. You're very welcome.
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