Re: Auel's sources (was R

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In article <60.2325.7295.0N1ECB0D@canrem.com>,
J. Moore <j#d#.moore@canrem.com> wrote:
>Pn> >And who came up with the notion that the first Cro-Magnons were
>Pn> >blond?
>
>Pn> And the neandertals dark-skinned.
>Pn> Phil Nicholls (pnich@globalone.net)
>
>I don't know, but I know Bjorn Kurten, if I have the correct guy,
>explicitly reversed that in his novels, reasoning that blonde and
>lighter-skinned would go with a more northerly-adapted people.

Hmmm. but Neandertals were better adapted for the cold. When you look at
cold-dwelling peoples now, such as the inuit, they are dark-haired, but I
suppose that could be from having descended from Asian groups.
Personally, I think the argument is molded to fit whatever people want it
to: 'Northerly races are pale and blond,' but Neandertals were more
Northerly-adapted, so I guess they were just pasty-faced.

-erin

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