re: #85 Decatur Deb

Ahem. BACK WHEN I WAS AN ANTHRO MAJOR, the “killed-off or screwed-in” ideas were rocking back and forth. The radical Screwers insisted most Neantderthals would pass unnoticed in the NFL. The tide turned against the “screwed-in” crowd in the 70s and 80s, until the widespread use of cheap genetic analysis.

Yes, Anthros are nasty, but there is nothing sweeter than a coed gradschool summer Archaeo dig.

At an exhibit at the San Francisco Academy of Sciences some years ago, they took one of the life-size Neanderthal models and, rather than putting him in the diorama, put him in street clothes and a baseball cap, and stood him next to the door.

Your eye could easily skip over him, unless you looked hard he just looked like another museum-goer.