Stone-Age Dentist
“Neanderthal Dentistry Dates Back 60,000 Years”
—Archaeology Magazine
(to the tune of the Flintstones theme)
Meet the stone-age dentist, he’s a graduate of Bedrock U.
Using bone and stone tools, he will make that tooth as good as new.
Sit down, just relax and open wide. Worst case, you could end up petrified.
Though we’ve made advances, this is still the age of clubs and spears.
You’ll get anesthetic in another sixty thousand years.
Neanderthal Lothario
“”[A] new study suggests that when our species and Neanderthals [interbred], it was primarily between male Neanderthals and anatomically modern female humans.“
—Scientific American
Analysis of genomes indicates
that women chose Neanderthals as mates
more often than male humans ever chose
distaff Neanderthals. But why? Who knows?
The findings, though, at least demystify
one puzzle: Scholars long have wondered why
Neanderthals in fossil form are found
where you’d expect—a grave, a midden mound,
or tar pits, caves, alluvial deposits—
but also not infrequently in closets.