#79 Prehistory (Part 2)

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re taking a look a Prehistory and specifically; how clever were the Neanderthals? What was early mankind getting up to? And finally, what did the Flintstones get right in their depiction of Stone Age man?

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
0:04.9	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.9	Hello and welcome to Part 2 of Prehistory.
0:11.9	Let's get on on the show.
0:27.2	Okay. Okay, I'm going to tell you now about Neanderthals.
0:30.9	There was a time when West Hamphans were described as Neanderthals,
0:32.8	and that was seen as a bad thing.
0:35.5	But hey, now West Hamphans, if you are called a Neanderthal, you can turn around and go, yeah, what, clever?
0:37.9	Because increasingly, that is what we're finding out about Neanderthals.
0:41.8	Yeah, what, clever.
0:45.3	Officer.
0:46.4	Officer.
0:47.0	In unison, all of them, 70,000 turning around.
0:49.4	Yeah what, clever.
0:52.5	Homo sapiens had only one serious rival in the homogenous,
0:56.1	the Neanderthal, who mainly lived in Europe,
0:58.3	from wailed through to Greece,
0:59.6	but also in parts of Anatolia and modern-day Uzbekistan.
1:03.2	The word Neanderthal passed into English in 1861,
1:07.6	following analysis on a discovery in the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf.
1:12.1	The Neander Valley is literally Neanderthal in German.
1:17.0	Weird to think of German Neanderthals.
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