Neanderthals vs. Homo Sapiens

CR 544

Billy:

I suppose it would be like carrying water into the Rhine, you are right about that. And I think with that this topic is also concluded. Then I have a question that refers to the Neanderthals or rather to their extinction. Again, and again there are reports about it on television and in newspapers and magazines, whereby the scientists however to this day still do not know the real reason for their extinction. There are the most diverse grey theories about this, including one that says that the Neanderthals were exterminated by Homo sapiens, the emerging human being at the time, as you yourself once said. But is that really true down to the last detail? We both talked about it amongst other times also on the 11th of August 2008 at the 469th contact conversation, whereby you said the following: (excerpt from Volume 11, page 422, sentences 135–139):

Ptaah:

135. It was indeed the case that in the most various locations the modern human beings interbred with Neanderthals and begot offspring.

136. This however was not the rule, but occurred rather sparsely.

137. As a rule, the modern human beings hunted the Neanderthals and killed them, to use them as food, because the early homo sapiens were cannibals, and as such they, by and by, wiped out the Neanderthals.

138. Partly, the modern human beings held Neanderthals as captives, which they killed and ate in case of need for food.

139. Such captives were also used, on certain occasions, to perform sexual acts with the homo sapiens, and indeed with both sexes. As a result, also certain female Neanderthals and homo sapiens bore hybrids as offspring, however which was not often the case.

Billy: Additionally, I now want to ask you whether that which you have explained is comprehensive in relation to the extinction of the Neanderthals, or whether there were yet other factors which played a role. You did indeed once say later that the extinction of these early human beings led back not only to the then emergence of modern human beings, even though they exterminated different groups of Neanderthals. By the way, today the term Neanderthal is also written with a “th”, thus, Neanderthals. I also do not know why. But if you could now explain to me across the board some more about these early human beings and their environment etc., as well as whether there were perhaps other reasons for their extinction besides the ones you have mentioned to me. Because for our scientists it is still not clear what the real reason for the extinction had been, so their minds are divided. Maybe you are able to bring a little more clarity to the matter?

Ptaah:

72. That which I have said to you with my explanation in the 469th contact conversation corresponds very well to the rightness.

73. But if you are raising the whole thing in such a way as to ask whether thereby everything has been comprehensively explained down to the last detail, then it must be said that this is not the case.

74. In fact, the modern human beings who emerged then, exterminated entire groups and tribes of Neanderthals, but for their final extinction there were also anatomical as well as natural climate-changing influences given, which I have hitherto never mentioned and which ultimately ended the existence of these early human beings.

75. Apart from the fact that the modern human beings came to Europe from Western Asia, who often ate human flesh and were anatomically much more developed than the Neanderthals, whom they hunted down, killed and used them as food, there are, as I said, other important factors that led to the extinction of these early human beings.

76. But if I am now supposed to mention other important factors, then I will gladly do so, and in doing so I will draw on our records, which we possess and which I am familiar with.

77. Thereby, I will not proceed chronologically, however, rather simply as I remember the facts at the moment.

78. So the first thing to say is that that which I explained – regarding modern human beings’ cannibalism and in relation to the sexual acts between them and the Neanderthals – in fact, corresponds to the reality of that time.

79. Although, against all adversity at the time, the Neanderthals held their own for a little more than 250,000 years, but, in the development of their body and metabolism, they were adjusted to the then prevailing very cold climate.

80. That finally led to their last doom because, because when in a short time extremely strong climatic changes occurred, the effect for the Neanderthals was an extremely disadvantageous impact on their food supply, consequently many began to suffer from hunger.

81. Over time this led not only to degenerative effects, but also often to the death.

82. In spite of their savagery, they were sociable beings and held tightly together, whereby they lived, however, only in small groups, and their total number always remained small.

83. When diseases arose among them, they concerned themselves collectively with the sick and nursed them.

84. Their diet consisted primarily of meat, which they captured by corresponding hunts for all kinds of small and large animals, whereby they then shared the meat among themselves in a remarkably communal way.

85. However, they also nourished themselves with berries, fruits and plants, but the meat always remained the staple food, which was of great necessity for especially their entire constitution.

86. Fundamentally, however, they were bad at metabolising food, on which I will be speaking again.

87. Physically, they were very strong, and also all their internal and external constitution was extremely robust and adjusted in such a way to withstand very cold temperatures, which was particularly important because they indeed lived during a very cold time.

88. They were also clever and had their own – if still primitive – language.

89. They led their existence in productive hunting areas in the then forests in which they also lived and knew safe shelters, in whose protection they also had their accommodations.

90. However, all this changed unusually quickly, as around 45,000 years ago the climate began to change drastically, in addition to the fact that the modern human beings made their appearance and hunted them down, kept them prisoners, engaged in sexual relations with them, but also killed and ate them when food was in short supply.

91. The emerging climate change gradually also altered the forests and landscapes, consequently, gigantic open expanses emerged in which the Neanderthals could not hold their own, and, as a consequence of their cumbersomeness, also could not hunt.

92. Their specialty was the forests, where they could stalk the game to be hunted and kill it with primitive, heavy spears equipped with stone points that had been beaten into shape.

93. These heavy killing instruments and the ponderousness and clumsiness of the Neanderthals made it impossible for them to hold their own in the vastness of open plains.

94. Moreover, they could not stalk the wildlife on open land because it fled quickly if it sighted or caught the scent of the human beings.

95. So the Neanderthals hid in the forests, which had now become lighter, but where they also had more and more difficulties in terms of hunting, because they no longer had any cover due to the lightening of the forest areas when stalking the animals.

96. Furthermore, it was the case that the Neanderthals could not sufficiently utilise the nutrients from meat, plants, berries and fruits and could not efficiently convert them into energy, consequently they had to constantly eat large quantities.

97. The cells and their energies and powers of the early human beings were of a completely different nature than those of the much lighter and more flexibly built modern human beings.

98. With the Neanderthals, the entire metabolism was laid out to the production of heat, which was absolutely necessary as a consequence of the then prevailing cold.

99. This was completely different from the modern human beings who had emerged and were downright puny compared to the Neanderthals and displayed totally different characteristics to the heavily-built, early human beings.

100. And since the Neanderthals increasingly lacked food, it naturally led to many dying of hunger, while others were hunted and captured by the cannibalistic modern human beings to use them as welcome sex objects or, in an emergency, as food.

101. Since through the sexual acts between the Neanderthals and the modern human beings offspring were also conceived, it turned out that the offspring increasingly had the characteristics of modern human beings, hence this is another factor of what led to the extinction and extermination of the pure Neanderthals.

102. And since the evolution never stands still, it turned out that the modern human beings also evolved further, up to the present Homo sapiens sapiens, whereby the heritage of the Neanderthals has been preserved in the genome of many terrestrial human beings to this day.

103. Although the Neanderthals became extinct almost 30,000 years ago, however, their genetic heritage remains intact until today and will also be passed on from generation to generation in the future.

104. Regarding the descendants of Neanderthals directly, as well as those where modern humans were involved, it has nevertheless to be explained that also in this respect factors of extinction played a role.

105. Compared to the modern human beings, the Neanderthals featured larger skulls, which made the birth very difficult, because the birth canal often could not be dilated far enough, which is why many female beings died during births or through severe life-threatening infections.

106. Births among the Neanderthals were therefore particularly complicated and difficult and often fatal, which was also the reason why these early human beings did not proliferate extensively and only appeared in small groups.

107. Alongside the genetic material of the Neanderthals, however, also traces of the genetic material of other close relatives have found their way into today’s Earth-humans living in Europe.

108. Although there are no longer any pure Neanderthals among the approximately 8 thousand million Earth-humans today, their heritage is still to a greater of lesser extent contained in the genome of many Earth-humans.

109. And it is a fact, as you say, that there are many theories among earthly scientists regarding the Neanderthals, who today no longer exist in pure form for already some 30,000 years.

110. But since their heritage is still present in small parts, namely up to seven percent, in the genome of many Earth-humans today, one really has to ask whether the Neanderthals have actually become extinct, because if certain Earth-humans of the present time are looked at, then one could actually assume that the Neanderthals are not yet extinct.

111. This fact alone, of the Neanderthal heritage in the genome of many modern Earth-humans, proves that these early human beings had sexual relationships with the modern human beings, from which descendants have emerged who have continued to reproduce and pass on their heritage over many generations – until the present time.