Point of fact about my dear friends the Neanders... I have spent a lot of time doing skulptures of Neanders, and visiting their houses, now that they are no longer home, though, I would love to have found them, by their fires in France and Spain. I have examined the injuries to their extemities that they experienced from their rather direct, most likely and guileless hunting methods. Well, the evidence does not show them to have been killed off by modern man, no evidence points to this anywhere. They did not just carry clubs, Mousterian culture had not invented the bi-valve tool, as far as we know, but they did make somewhat complex tool and seemed to apreciate some forms of symbolic representation.
I believe that what killed them off was their lack of great curiosity. They apparently lived for thousands of years in the same spots, the same family groups occupied the same caves for generations for hunderds of years. Well, it is more likely that our strenth was our highly developed immune system from travelling everywhere. We met others and developed very complicated immune systems.
Now dear frined what does this mean for those calling for war? If you sojourn out among the people's of the world, you may learn the folly of reacting like a primitive, you are hit with a club and you hit the hitter and his mother and brother. We in lower Manhatten see the folly of this thinking. Go to Isreal, see the outcome of such foolishness. Put down the club and use your head.
End the practice of anonimous banking (and posting! :-) ...) The real problem is the Cayman Islands and the Swiss, their banking systems make funding terror possible. Get out in the world, and don't think so badly of Neanders, I for one am rather fond of them, and believe they may have been much more gentle than many folks emagine.
Cheers, Larry