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Tracker0721:
So I was just watching a documentary on Neanderthals and they were showing the flint points that they used and started saying how it actually took more intelligence to make their points then it did modern humans to make theirs. So I'm looking at the modern points, like most of us here make, and looking at these Neanderthals flakes thinking these guys were smoking something but then they actually showed the flint knapper making the points! They planned the point from the beginning and took flakes to shape a point on one side of a big ole chunk of flint that had a even thickness and was pretty straight then drove a flute it looks like down so the flake would pop off in the desired shape and have those incredibly sharp edges all around it! Pretty awesome documentary on how much we have no idea about Neanderthals and what we have found out in the last few years changes every thought about them we've had. I'm gonna try making some points later on using their technique. The flint knapper on the documentary said it took him around 18 months to be proficient at making them!

nclonghunter:
I would like to watch it, any idea on where to find the documentary?

Tracker0721:
Netflix and it was called "decoding Neanderthals". Or something like that.

Parnell:
Every so often this stuff comes up.  NOVA has done work on it and there are other examples.  They've decoded the Neanderthal Genome and I believe other human species, as well. It seems that Neanderthals have left some of their genetics with us.  Western Europeans have some of the highest percentages...I think around 3%.  In science's perspective, the only folks that don't have any "cross-species" genetics are folks of "purely" African descent.  Anyhow,  I love that stuff...fascinating.  Cheers.

I'd like to see pictures of their points/flakes.  Never checked that out before.

Tracker0721:
Yeah that's what it was saying. Even Chinese people still have a couple percent. The documentary goes over the whole 4 year process to decoding the genome and how Neanderthals have the exact same gene we do that allows us to have language.

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