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We are lucky to have an ologist available to explain these things.

I hadn't realised that neanderthal knitting skills were so good.

It must take a fair few sheep to supply wool for mammoth knitwear. Or was prehistoric wool from larger creatures?
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Artists impression of prehistoric, gas buoyant sheep.
They were pretty big.
 

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Tried to submit a paper today, actually, and the place I was sending it lost it and somehow my copy got deleted so I've got to do it all again from my notes.
About 3 days work, i reckon. :(
 

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They must have been difficult to shear. You wouldn't want to puncture one. Imagine one of those whizzing round a cave uncontrollably making a high pitched wheeeeeeee noise!
We have no evidence of how they caught them, but their wool was widely used.
My theory is that the Neanderthals disguised themselves as a patch of clover and then boshed the sheep when they came down to feed and then put them on lines.
This is how kite flying was invented.
And balloons.
Probably.
 

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Tried to submit a paper today, actually, and the place I was sending it lost it and somehow my copy got deleted so I've got to do it all again from my notes.
About 3 days work, i reckon. :(


boo :( :(. i lose a days wage if i loose my paperwork... I never have, but always take a picture on the phone as back up
 

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We have no evidence of how they caught them, but their wool was widely used.
My theory is that the Neanderthals disguised themselves as a patch of clover and then boshed the sheep when they came down to feed and then put them on lines.
This is how kite flying was invented.
And balloons.
Probably.


used knitting needles as spears if memory serves? ;)
 

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used knitting needles as spears if memory serves? ;)
So the widely accepted theory goes.
But only when they wanted to eat one, and then they encountered the whizzing about making funny noises problem that Linda mentioned.
But this proves knitting was invented before spears.
 

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