Did the Neanderthal man lacked intelligence?

Question

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Answer 1

They probably lacked either intelligence or they were more prone to sickness. Homosapeins survived the ice age because they began to farm. This is what separates humans from animals. There is no animal on earth that intentionally places seeds in the ground with the intention of growing food to survive the winter.   Neanderthal did not adapt and after the ice age they were probably so accustom to hunting certain types of animals and once the weather changed so quickly it probably changed the ecosystem and caused some animals to die off that the Neanderthal was accustom to eating.

Answer 2

no, they were pretty intelligent. They created fire, hunted, built shelters, and were the first to leave Africa and migrate up north. They are said to have evolved in Africa.

Answer 3

Well we have one of them in an Australian Rules footy team called Big Bazza and he's good at the game but keeps bashing up his opponents as he is good at boxing as well as football and he is sometimes thought to lack intelligence.

But to the question of course they didn't lack intelligence.  They would have been good hunters and know all about the herbs around them and were probably stronger than the newer type of humans invading their territory and we might also have them in our gene pool who knows and we aren't stupid - Are we? and they survived for quite a while too so they must have been knowledgeable re their environment I think.  We probably interbred with them on occasions too.

Answer 4

No, they kept humans at bay for a very long time. No-one knows why humans got the edge over them..

they had medicine, mining,abstract thought. They weren't really much differnt at all. See links (a lot on them).

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Answer 5

No they were intelligent and had larger brains then us but they seemed to have lacked imagination and to have been slow to adapt new technologies?

Once they found something that worked they stuck to it.

My educated guess is that some day we will find the Neanderthals were more advanced than we currently think and that a lot of their tool kit was made of persihable materials we have not yet found traces of.

Considering that as another poster pointed out they adapted to living in Glacial Europe I suspect they might have had weaving or knitting techniques for creating fabrics or they invented yoga!

My hypothesis is that one day some archaeologist will find traces of fire pits near Neanderthals caves or sites and traces of burnt perishables. I suspect anything that wasnt stone that belonged to a dead person was ritually burnt hence the  appearance of a limited tool kit.

Intelligent yes but not quite quick or clever enuff to compete with CroMagnon?

Answer 6

I don't ever speak to my brother-in-law, but I'll go strike up a conversation and let you know...

Answer 7

Neanderthals were intelligent enough to spend 300,000 years of winters in Europe!