New data suggests that our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, were into water sports, something that had been denied for decades.
Crude wet suits made from seal skins have forced anthropologists to rethink their fossilized ideas about these early “cave men”.
“They didn’t dive all that deep,” said Harris McAulder, visiting professor from the University of Colorado, “we’re thinking maybe 10 or 15 feet at most. Their attempts to make air tanks out of goat bladders never came to fruition.”
Other artifacts have lead to more extreme theories about Neanderthals and their relationship with not only the depths of the ocean but the surface as well. “We’re pretty sure that rudimentary surfboards got quite a bit of use during warm weather”, said McAulder. He added that a wooden device with crude wheels may have been used to transport the boards.
“The biggest one we found had ’34’ etched in one side. So it’s obviously a 34 wagon we’re calling a woody.”