Fossil records indicate that the Neanderthal were physically powerful and war-scarred race substantially more muscular than Homo Sapiens. They had extremely muscular chests, longer bodies, but shorter legs. Some fossil specimens , have hip sockets more splayed than modern humans. A Neanderthal, partially because of this greater muscle mass, would weigh about 20-25 lbs [10-12 kilos] more than a modern human of the same height. Physically, they were a race resembling the Incredible Hulk, with a greater intellectual capacity than their Homo-Sapien counterparts
One flaw in the Neanderthal/Nephilim theory is that Neanderthals, although of significantly greater body mass were actually slightly shorter in height than Homo sapiens and some claim they were unlikely to have been referred to as giants. This theoretical flaw is easily reconciled when one realizes that the word Nephilim actually means "fallen ones" and "Unnaturally begotten men" not giants, the word being translated in the King James Bible as "Giants", is recognized now as a probable mistranslation.
"Neanderthals although shorter than Modern man, and slightly shorter than their Homo Sapien contemporaries they had a much greater Body Mass ...“Neandertals were about 30% larger .than an average modern man and of great muscular strength. They had low foreheads, protruding brows, and large noses with broad nostrils and were meat eaters” [1 ]
."One of the most characteristic features of the Neanderthals is the exaggerated massiveness of their trunk and limb bones. All of the preserved bones suggest a strength seldom attained by modern humans." -Erik Trinkaus Hard Times among the Neanderthals
"evidence indicates that Neanderthals were people of incredible power and strength—far superior to all but the most avid bodybuilders of today. " - Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils
Marvin Lubenow
" Not only were they [Neanderthal] physically more robust than the gracile H. sapiens, they also had a larger brain, and there is some physiological evidence that they had superior sight, hearing and sense of smell." Bryant Mansfield
Manual Dexterity / Opposing Thumbs
Anthropologists at one time theorized that Neanderthal was incapable of making the more advanced tools utilized by Humans because they lacked opposing thumbs and hence the requisite dexterity . Recent studies suggest otherwise.
"...some anthropologists have proposed that Neandertals died out because their clumsy hands were unable to manufacture advanced tools. A new three-dimensional computer simulation of their thumb and forefinger, however, indicates that Neandertals had the same ‘precision grip’ as modern humans.
To make their model, researchers scanned images of a thumb and index finger of fossils found in La Ferrassie, France, and then converted the images into a full-motion model (much like animators now do with computer graphics). Although Neandertal hands look different from ‘modern’ hands (they had more muscle tissue and broader fingertips), their thumb was easily able to touch the tip of their index finger—the key to human dexterity." Thumbs up for Neandertals
Neanderthal Language
Although no proof of a written language has been discovered. Neanderthal may have possessed an advanced vocalized language. Fossils indicate that their voice boxes contained vocal cords that were capable of making sounds similar if not the same as modern humans.
Neanderthals Had Language - [Babel's Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech
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Neanderthals, Humans Share Language Gene
Neanderthal Communities and Culture
Neanderthals were a social race. The old and the injured were taken care of ,not simply left to die. Elderly Individuals have been found substantiating the belief that they exercised "humanity" in their exercise of mental thought principles over physical actions.
There is evidence indicating that Neanderthals possessed a sense of family / community spirit . Ritual burials and caring for the old and sick. Remains of physically impaired individuals have been discovered. Some skeletons display healed injuries which tends to indicate that the injuries were treated and cared for.
In a cave in Iraq, archaeologists uncovered skeletal remains of a man, two women and a child buried together in soil containing flower pollen . The flowers, apparently being set there by survivors, strongly suggests that Neanderthals thought and cared for their dead.
In Yugoslavia a flute has been unearthed among Neanderthal remains which indicates that Neanderthals had the ability to make music as well being indicative of an advanced thought process.
Neanderthal Warriors
There is evidence that Neanderthals were vicious and warlike , suffering and inflicting battle wounds, mutilations, torture and maiming. One Neanderthal site containing human/homo sapien bone fragments shows signs of cuts and burns. These burnt and intentionally broken human bones have been interpreted as being evidence of cannibalism. They could also be indicative of torture and or mutilation by dismemberment as has often been the case within certain homo sapien cultures who engage in vicious battle blood lust.
Neanderthal DNA
Modern man and Neanderthal are both derived from a common ancestor who lived about 500,000 years ago, but modern humansprobably do not have Neanderthal ancestors in their family tree, a new DNA study concludes. The DNA extracted from the ribs of a Neanderthal infant buried in southern Russia 29,000 years ago was found to be too distinct from modern human DNA to be related.Not all Researchers agree. A 24,500-year-old skeleton found in Portugal demonstrates that Neanderthal man and early humans intermixed and produced children, said Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts and Sciences.
"It is believed by some people that modern man shared several thousand years of history with Neanderthals, and also that the Middle-Eastern region was home to some of the last surviving pockets of Neanderthals or H. neandertalensis. Therefore, it is conceivable that a folk memory of these creatures survived by way of mythology. In addition, it appears that the very last Neanderthals adopted some of the technological and cultural innovations of their H. sapiens contemporaries. The theory is that surviving Neanderthals or hybrids might have been large, powerful men possessing the intellect and societal characteristics of our own species, which would explain their identification as "mightiest ones" and "men of renown." -Wikipedia
Cro-Magnon
Neanderthalis experienced rapid extinction and were eventually replaced by Cro-Magnon populations in Western Europe. Cro-Magnon possessed a brain capacity 200 cc larger than the average modern human , that's 18.5% larger . Cro-Magnons are considered modern humans, and ancestral to the current primate in occupation of this planet- Homo Sapiens [Us]. Cro-Magnon was also slightly taller than both present day Homo Sapiens and Neanderthal.
Anthropologist Carleton Stevens Coon  describes Cro-Magnon Man as a large, heavy-boned, muscular people with large heads and powerful jaws; and declares that this brand of Human is well illustrated by "the skeletons taken from a number of caves in Palestine and Lebanon, notably from the Cave of the Kids (Mugharet es-Skhul) near Mount Carmel, excavated in 1926 and 1927 ." Although science has declared that Homo Sapiens such as ourselves could not successfully produce offspring with Neanderthal, it is not certain that this hypothesis applies to Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal mating.
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