Comments on: Strontium isotope used to investigate Neandertal mobility

By: EL ADN DE LOS NEANDERTALES QUE TOCABAN LA FLAUTA | El Blog de Ana Vazquez Hoys

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:19:43 +0000

[...] Strontium isotope used to investigate Neandertal mobility » Peloponnese Neandertal Tooth [...]

By: On Neandertal Stone Tools & Estimations Of Their Intelligence « Anthropology.net

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:04:51 +0000

[...] this ‘let’s rethink Neandertals as intelligent beings’ reminds me of February’s isotopic study on a Neandertal tooth. There was so much press buzzing around, stating that, “Ohhh new fancy [...]

By: Sophisticated Tools Associated with Neandertals found in Beedings site, near Pulborough, West Sussex, UK « Anthropology.net

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:48:21 +0000

[...] reminds me of this other hyped up Neandertal finding which I wrote about in February. Then, the press was going crazy over how some isotope analysis (creative methodology but not a [...]

By: Linda Moncrief

Linda Moncrief — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:31:08 +0000

Surely we know from Neandertal physical structure that they were capable of traveling, but would they if it wasn’t necessary? That is perhaps more the point in investigating mobility. Even today (and gosh aren’t we mobile!) you can easily find people who have never traveled very far, because there was (1) no need, (2) no interest, (3) no incentive and the ones I think of most often were villagers along a canal in modern France with easy access to transportation. But on second thought and experience driving around the U.S., it’s not too hard to find people in the U.S. who haven’t been 50 miles down the road. So, snarky remarker, comments on whether mobility in the region under discussion would have been necessary would be more interesting than out-of-hand dismissal.

Obviously as pointed out there is more than one explanation of the evidence under discussion but dismissal based on assumptions about human behavior seems inappropriate.

By: Shanidar III - A Neandertal who ate his veggies… Or at least chewed them « Anthropology.net

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:04:41 +0000

[...] too novel, but definitely important to finally confirm. Much like the conclusion that Neandertals were mobile, plant consumption among them is one of those things we knew was most likely the case. How? Based [...]

By: Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotopes in Human Hair can tell us where we’re from « Anthropology.net

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:08:46 +0000

[...] weeks ago we saw how stable isotope analysis was used in a paleoanthropological context, with a Neandertal tooth. A new study published in this week’s issue of PNAS, extends stable isotope analysis from [...]

By: Anne Gilbert

Anne Gilbert — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:33:31 +0000

Well, the study is, uh, interesting. But I wouldn’t call it earthshaking, either. OTOH, there seems to be this idea that Neandertals never wandered very far. That could be what they’re *really* getting at.
Anne G

By: EEF

EEF — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:47:44 +0000

I had similar comments and criticisms in my blog entry about this particular study.