shanidar 1 best hominid fossil moments
Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
braintransplantshanidar 1 is an epic fossil of homo neanderthalensis because it says fuck you to the idea that ""primitive"" humans/communities were cruel or uncaring, or that Survival Of The Fittest = those who are ""weak"" die. people really misunderstand how natural selection works and what survival of the fittest really means but that is a dw post 4 another day.
anyway
the skull of shanidar 1 shows that he received a crushing blow to the head which damaged the left eye socket, leaving him partially or completely blind, as well as a blow to the area of the brain in control of his right side, leaving his right arm atrophied and his right leg potentially paralyzed. the ear canals also have bone spurs which likely left him partially deaf.
(skull of shanidar 1. you can see the slightly concave area at the left temple as well as the dent in the left browbone.)
(the right humerus of shanidar 1, severely atrophied due to either amputation or pseudoarthritis)
all of shanidar 1's injuries appear to be healed, meaning they occured long before death (though the sequence of them is nearly impossible to do on bones this old), and shanidar 1 lived into his 40's. he would have been considered extremely old by neanderthal standards, but he was taken care of the majority of his life by the group of neanderthal's he lived with, suggesting altruistic care in their community!!!!!
anyway
the skull of shanidar 1 shows that he received a crushing blow to the head which damaged the left eye socket, leaving him partially or completely blind, as well as a blow to the area of the brain in control of his right side, leaving his right arm atrophied and his right leg potentially paralyzed. the ear canals also have bone spurs which likely left him partially deaf.
(skull of shanidar 1. you can see the slightly concave area at the left temple as well as the dent in the left browbone.)
(the right humerus of shanidar 1, severely atrophied due to either amputation or pseudoarthritis)
all of shanidar 1's injuries appear to be healed, meaning they occured long before death (though the sequence of them is nearly impossible to do on bones this old), and shanidar 1 lived into his 40's. he would have been considered extremely old by neanderthal standards, but he was taken care of the majority of his life by the group of neanderthal's he lived with, suggesting altruistic care in their community!!!!!
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2019-06-27 21:08 (UTC)