Neanderthal

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This NP theory view of a malignantly aggressive ‘psychopathic’ transitional species is at odds with most palaeontologists who argue these people were fully modern—indistinguishable from you and me. Anthropology does not currently recognise the need for an interim species between Upper Palaeolithic stone-age people and ourselves. But NP theory argues that, although the new hyper-aggressive humans had come a long way, their journey was far from over. Natural selection still had a great deal of fine tuning to do (including exorcising the genes for hyper-aggression) before one of these post-bottleneck humans could attend the theatre without causing a riot.

To distinguish the transitional clade of hyper-aggressive early modern humans that sprang from the Levantine bottleneck—cantankerous and spoiling for a fight—I have revived the term Cro-Magnon.

 
It’s payback time

In drama, good characters drive the plot. So, with the dramatic entrance of a compelling new protagonist onto centre stage, our Shakespearian drama of human origins is set for an exciting plot twist, one which will drive the drama to its cathartic climax.

From what we now know about Cro-Magnons, we can predict what happened next. Unconstrained by laws, religion, morals, treaties or codes of civility, hyper-aggressive Cro-Magnons would have embarked on a protracted campaign of retributive violence against the Eurasian Neanderthals.

[Author’s note benne about the Cro-Magnons:] (Cro-Magnon was the name given to the earliest modern humans to enter Europe by the French palaeontologist Louis Lartet. Lartet discovered the first five skeletons in the Cro-Magnon rock shelter at Les Eyzies, in south-western France in 1868. Cro-Magnons are the quintessential ‘cavemen’ of popular literature. Although today the term has mostly been supplanted by anatomically modern or early modern humans, I find the term useful to describe a transitional population between Initial Upper Palaeolithic—or modern—humans and fully modern humans.)

The object of this ‘proto-war’ was not dietary predation or territorial encroachment, but something quite unique among the anthropoids—killing members of a sibling species out of extreme antipathy. This in turn is based on an innate sense that it was them or us—an instinctive awareness that the two species were mutually exclusive—that there is room for only one of them. Armed with their innovative projectile weapons, newly acquired military tactics, courage, cunning and aggression, Cro-Magnons took every opportunity to exterminate every Neanderthal they came across.

This, I believe, was the first time humans killed other than for the purposes of food, the first time they hunted for sport.

From the perspective of a virile young Cro-Magnon male, it is hard to imagine there would be any consideration of the social, political and evolutionary consequences of their murderous campaign. It was intuitive and instinctive—because it was already innate.

Just as lion cubs and other juvenile predators use play to practise the hunting and killing techniques they will use as adults, Cro-Magnon boys would have incorporated their new aggressive proclivities into their development. From an early age, they would have played with toy spears and clubs—the new tools of the trade—and practised hunting and killing Neanderthals. By the time they reached their teenage years, Cro-Magnon boys would be physically, hormonally and socially prepared to take on their fathers’ lethal quest.

Today, boys around the world do not pretend to hunt antelope or mammoths to practise future skills. They play variations of ‘Cowboys and Indians’—seminal them and us battles between humans. These games are the vestigial remnants of ancestral imperatives—innate proclivities that had served to hone the violent duties of adulthood.

 

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Editor’s Note – Cowboys and Indians:

Remember the epigraphs to the featured post, “The Wall”:

“Christian ethics was like a time bomb ticking away in Europe, a Trojan horse waiting for its season”. —William Pierce

“1945 was the year of the total inversion of Aryan values into Christian values”. —Joseph Walsh

Before Christian ethics metastasized to obvious levels of Aryan suicide after WW2, even in the Christian Era white people were capable of fighting against the “historical Neanderthals”, as I call the coloureds. For example, at the beginning of Scalp Dance, Thomas Goodrich quotes accounts of 19th-century Whites in their war with the Indians. Goodrich wrote:

 

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Prologue— November 29, 1864

Revealed a Denver man who, with two friends, stumbled upon the aftermath of one Indian raid:

About 100 yards from the desolated ranch [we] discovered the body of the murdered woman and her two dead children, one of which was a little girl of four years and the other an infant. The woman had been stabbed in several places and scalped, and the body bore evidences of having been violated. The two children had their throats cut, their heads being nearly severed from their bodies. […]

“Remember the murdered women and children!” cried [John] Chivington as he and his nine hundred screaming horsemen charged toward the village. Sure of their safety, the sleeping Indians were caught completely by surprise. According to one witness:

When I looked toward the chief’s lodge, I saw that Black Kettle had a large American flag up on a long lodgepole as a signal to the troops that the camp was friendly. Part of the people were rushing about the camp in great fear. All the time Black Kettle kept calling out not to be frightened; that the camp was under protection and there was no danger. Then suddenly the troops opened fire on this mass of men, women, and children, and all began to scatter and run.

Though most of the 600 Indians, including Black Kettle, miraculously escaped, many were not so fortunate. Besieged for three years with their backs to the wall, harassed and humiliated by a wily, elusive foe that simply defied pursuit, when the Coloradans finally gained control of the camp all their hate and fury exploded in a fiery flash. Running through the village the troops mowed down men, women, and children in heaps. Vengeful and murderous as many were, some soon discovered they had no stomach for what then ensued. “[T]hey were scalped, their brains knocked out,” said one horrified soldier. “[T]he men used their knives, ripped open women, clubbed little children, knocked them in the head with their guns, beat their brains out, [and] mutilated their bodies in every sense of the word.” Recalled another trooper:

There was one little child, probably three years old, just big enough to walk through the sand. The Indians had gone ahead, and this little child was behind following after them. The little fellow was perfectly naked. . . . I saw one man get off his horse, at a distance of about seventy­five yards, and draw up his rifle and fire—he missed the child. Another man came up and said, “Let me try the son of a bitch; I can hit him.” He got down off his horse, kneeled down and fired at the little child, but he missed him. A third man came up and made a similar remark, and fired, and the little fellow dropped.

When the carnage had ended, one officer noted:

In going over the battle­ground. I did not see a body of a man, woman, or child but what was scalped, and in many instances, their bodies were mutilated in a most horrible manner—men, women, and children’s privates cut out. I heard one man say that he had cut a woman’s private parts out, and had them for exhibition on a stick. I also heard of numerous instances in which men had cut the private parts of females, and stretched them over their saddlebows, and some of them over their hats.

While many were stunned and sickened by the slaughter, most felt justified after it was done.

I saw some of the men opening bundles or bales. I saw them take therefrom a number of white persons’ scalps—men’s, women’s, and children’s. I saw one scalp of a white woman in particular. It had been taken entirely off the head; the head had been skinned, taking all the hair; the scalp had been tanned to preserve it; the hair was auburn and hung in ringlets; it was very long hair. There were two holes in the scalp in front, for the purpose of tying it on their heads when they appeared in the scalp dance.

When John Chivington and his victorious column returned to Denver a short time later, the city erupted in a “glorification.”

“[They] have won for themselves,” rang a local editor, “the eternal gratitude of dwellers on these plains.”

Even as one great war was winding down, the seeds for another were being deeply sown by both sides. Unlike the one just ending, however, this next war would last much longer. And unlike the war now ending, this new fight would be waged with a hatred and fury that would soon make the world shudder.

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N.B. You can read the first 35 pages of Vendramini’s book here.