BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME Pleistocene coalition news VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2 MARCH-APRIL 2020 Inside -- ChallengingChallenging thethe tenetstenets ofof mainstreammainstream scientificscientific aagg e e n n d d a a s s -- P A G E 2 In 2010, after decades of Welcome to PCN, Volume 12, Issue #2 Neanderthals, field research, Dutch stone tool The Pleistocene Coalition is in its 11th year publishing rigor- Homo sapiens and production expert, Jan Willem van der Drift (colleague of ous, new and long-censored the crucial role of huts Pleistocene Coalition founding evidence early humans were Jan Willem van der Drift member and archaeologist, the our ‘equals’ and in the Americas P A G E 5 late Chris Hardaker), demon- hundreds of millennia ago. The strated that Oldowan ‘Mode I’ tools exhibited Coalition calls for accountability in Relevant reprint: what he termed ‘oblique bipolar flaking’ in an anthropology and paleontology— Thoughts on early age mainstream anthropology typically regards fields professing to be ‘sciences’ man; VSM re- as populated by mentally inept H. habilis. Here, van while untrustworthily misman- sponse to Cerutti der Drift challenges main- aging the objective evidence— In the last issue (PCN #63), Nature publication stream staples regarding Paleozoic to Pleistocene. we reprinted from Issue #3 Neanderthal extinction by Virginia Steen-McIntyre the first ‘In their own words’ focusing on energy eco- *‘This is a hypothesis installment P A G E 6 nomics and H. sapiens’ that begs for careful scrutiny by Pleistocene necessary improvements and attempts Early man and Coalition in hut technology. to falsify it; I’m multi-use tools founding See Van der Drift p.2. open to that.… Tom Baldwin That’s the way member, science should Dr. Virginia P A G E 8 Steen- In PCN #62, we noted how work, right? Member news McIntyre, confusing the 50,000-year old Bring it on.’ PhD, regard- and other info technological discoveries at –Dr. Tom Deméré, Cerutti ing the Cerutti Mastodon Edward Swanzey, Denisova Cave (Siberia) are Mastodon Team, national- Tom Baldwin, Alan Day, for the tenets of Darwinian butchering site—suppressed geographic.com, April 26, 2017 for ‘25 years.’ Due to ongoing John Feliks, Virginia anthropology. Clinging to the interest in this matter, with 19th century idea humans *Regarding PCN’s Cerutti Steen-McIntyre, Vesna readers sending questions, just keep getting smarter and Mastodon Parallel Timeline: Tenodi, Fred Budinger papers, etc., the reasons for smarter the mainstream ig- Filling in for mainstream citing prior evidence before P A G E 9 nores the implications of Nean- credibility gaps it shows the making bold new claims— Elaborated documen- derthals or H. erectus exhib- lone wolf problem of omitting are becoming clear to them as iting modern-level ingenuity. context to gain priority. tation of the mam- part of how science is meant Multi-use tools—in both Old One reader stated they’d moth/notation panel to work. The unsatisfactory and New Worlds—are part of ‘never seen anything like it.’ Ray Urbaniak, Mark way journals like Nature the problem. See Baldwin p.6. See reprint pp. 20–25. Willis, Todd Ellis, and Science mislead the pub- Braxton Ellis lic by publishing bold claims Engineer and rock art re- without proper context* is part P A G E 1 2 searcher, Ray Urbaniak, of the problem. Next issue Another possibility this issue will include Chris Hardaker’s regarding hand provides psychology behind self- stencils in France adventurous suppression and how Cerutti documenta- Team’s denigration of Calico Ray Urbaniak tion follow- and ignoring of Valsequillo to P A G E 1 3 up to last be ‘first’ weakens their case. issue’s mam- Possible locations of See Steen-McIntyre p. 5, moth, llama and proposed ancient rhythmic notation site in p. 8, and pp. 20–25. Pleistocene rock art southwest Utah. It is followed by two thought-provoking articles in North America inspired by the discoveries at Cosquer Cave, France, including Ray Urbaniak a new perspective on its well-known hand stencils. He also explores the possibility of finding similar ‘hidden’ Pleistocene art sites in the P A G E 1 6 Americas. Urbaniak continues to challenge the mainstream picture The Impact of Fos- of Paleolithic Americans as intellectually and artistically inferior to sils, Installment 3 their European counterparts due to evolutionary and migration John Feliks theory predispositions. See Urbaniak p.9, p.12, and p.13. P A G E 2 0 In PCN #s 61–63, a brief background, followed by Parts 1 and 2, were pro- Cerutti Mastodon vided for a published thesis called The Impact of Fossils. It concerns how early ‘Parallel Timeline’ humans may have been influenced in the development of rock art. The Introduc- reprint facts 25-yr. tion included passionate comments of defense from well-known science authorities in many fields responding suppression fiasco to the paper’s censorship by Current Anthropology and competitive researchers claiming low intelligence in early people. This Part 3 explores the psychology behind ‘iconic recognition’ and includes the first John Feliks geometric study of the famous 250,000-year old West Tofts handaxe. See Feliks p.16. VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2 P A G E 2 How our ancestors lived , Part 1 Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the crucial role of huts By Jan Willem van der Drift, Stone tool production expert, early man theorist Updating our questions Neanderthal skulls at the scientists—still believe these about Neanderthals same scale, like in my claims! My drawing shows “If we use drawing ( Fig. 1 ), In the colonial era people were we see that the cars as an judged on what they had. For analogy Neanderthal mouth example, black men had simple was comparatively huts and no guns, much larger than ours. so they had to be a It might be proposed simple ‘lower race.’ that evolution or Prehistorians (e.g., adaptation made it as archaeologists, large as it is because anthropologists) used Neanderthals had to eat the same method. three times the amount For example, we eat, roughly 6000 Neanderthals used calories per day. handaxes so they If we use cars as an were low on the analogy Neanderthals ‘evolutionary’ ladder. were like high Today, however, we performance 4WD cars know that the theory that need lots of fuel. Fig. 1. Morphology of Neanderthal skull (in Neanderthals that a man ’s material culture Whilst we are like background) compared at the same scale with reflects his evolutionary stage that of Homo sapiens (foreground). Note that were like high economy cars. We’re is absolutely false, for we not built to be better the braincase is not actually set lower in the performance can easily see that all living but to be cheaper. You skull as many imagine but that the eyes are set higher. The comparative distance from the chin 4WD cars humans are equal, whatever lose what you don’t their wealth or technology. to the top of the head is essentially the same. that need use, so, you might Drawing by Jan Willem van der Drift. Then why would this false lots of fuel. say that evolution or theory still be applied to adaptation made our Homo what really happened: the Whilst we Neanderthals? sapiens mouths smaller. Our economized face shrank so our are like noses also became smaller Genetic studies show that eyes sank below the brain-case. because we use less oxygen. economy Neanderthals and Moderns We do not have a higher My drawing shows the result cars: we’re interbred. This proves that they brain but simply lower eyes. of these changes. In effect, not built to were biologically compatible. This means that the muscle- our complete face shrank Energy economics and be better, tissue of Neanderthals was like a deflating balloon. larger populations but to be compatible to ours and when Confusing brain size, etc., We developed our economy cheaper.” you combine that with the with intelligence class anatomy because our fact that they had larger early modern Homo sapiens When Neanderthals were first muscles, it’s clear that they ancestors lived in parts of discovered, scholars did not were stronger than us. Africa where every dry season understand how the shape brought food-shortages. These Neanderthal brain tissue was of the face connects to the food shortages weakened all also compatible and when you performance of the body. fast-growing muscular children combine this with the fact that So, they used ‘phrenology’— who needed the most energy their braincases were bigger, belief that the shape and size and many became ill and died. it’s clear that they were at of the cranium is an indicator However, the slower-growing least as clever as we are. of character and mental abil- leaner children needed less Indeed, they outperformed ity—to interpret the fossils. energy to survive. So, these us in almost every way. But if E.g., the weak chin of children stayed healthy on the Neanderthals were the better Neanderthals would indicate a same ration of food-shares. We men why did they lose the weak character, and the low might say that natural selection struggle for survival? forehead, a wild and brutal made our bodies ‘cheap.’ mind. By such criteria, our Energy economics characteristic H. sapiens high When we return to the car The first reason why the high- forehead has been imagined as analogy it’s clear that cheap performance Neanderthals lost a sign our modern brain had sells. Yet, even though our the struggle for survival is risen to a higher mental stage. more economical anatomy helped to make us a success that performance always Today we know that phrenology high-performance 4WDs have comes at a price.