Creative Structures Built By Neanderthals Is Upending Our Understanding of the Species

[Judi Lynn]

9. I saw the illustration at the top of the article, and recalled having seen only horrible images of ancient ancestors

illustrating early people in other articles all looking unbearably stupid. Thought of checking Google images for pictures they'd collected of other "cave people" as they painted or drew on walls, also. Was interested in seeing how many of them were so horrifically stupid-looking. You may have felt disgusted, also, by how profoundly repulsive and hideous they have almost always been shown as being, too! I didn't see any in Google as grotesque as the ones which usually pop up representing Neanderthals.





Usually the artist takes great pains in informing us that people so long ago wouldn't look nearly as "evolved" as we do!