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SUMMARY:Neanderthal Pathology – Evidence of an Atypical Human Hunter-Gat
 herer? - Dr Simon Underdown (Dept. of Social Sciences\, Oxford Brookes Uni
 versity )
DTSTART:20141112T163000Z
DTEND:20141112T173000Z
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CONTACT:Aurélien Mounier
DESCRIPTION:The orthodox view of the Neanderthals largely remains one of a
  "cognitively inhibited" hominin lacking the behavioural and biological ad
 aptations that allowed _Homo sapiens_ to prosper. On-going research and ex
 cavation is showing this outmoded view to be ever more unsustainable. Usin
 g data drawn from the pathological record I will argue that the Neandertha
 ls\, far from being the lumbering\, injury prone idiots of lore\, were in 
 fact typical of many human hunter-gatherer populations. Ultimately using b
 adly devised comparisons is just as disingenuous as the arguments made for
  the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution.
LOCATION:BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41)\, Division of Biological Anthro
 pology\, Pembroke Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3QG
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