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The Speech Capabilities of late Archaic Homo Sapiens
Brandi Fowler
Ivy Tech Community College
December 4, 2012
Abstract
Although there is no direct evidence and a species language or their language capabilities do not fossilize, coupled with more modern techniques being used today and archeological evidence, it is possible now to study this topic with more success than in previous years. There is a record that supports the suggestion of Homo neandertal speech capabilities. Previous to the recovery of an intact middle paleolithic hyoid bone, the reconstructed vocal tract and the FOXP2 gene, the lack of evidence on the speech capabilities of Homo neandertals led most scholars to regard the topic as unsuitable for serious study (2012) .
H. neandertal speech capabilities have proven in recent years to be a task capturing much of the time and research of anthropologist. In the 20th century it was commonly thought that H. neandertal was too brutish and simple to have evolved into modern humans, and had very little modern behavior or capabilities. As the fossil record grew and the technology progressed the scientific community found evidence of modern behavior and possibly speech capabilities, that would portray H. neandertal as the advance subspecies he was instead of the brutish, unintelligent being that had been reinforced through the 20th century.
Empirical evidence that supports speech capabilities among H. neandertal could mean origins of modern language, larger cultural leaps than once thought and a variety of social relationships among these archaic Homo Sapiens . It is generally agreed that origins of language are closely tied to the origins of modern human behavior, although there is little agreement on the implications. The discovery of the hyoid bone, reconstructions of the vocal tract including the cranial base and the larynx, the DNA sequence of H. neandertal that carried the FOXP2 gene (fork head box protein) and is known as the
The Speech Capabilities of late Archaic Homo Sapiens
Brandi Fowler
Ivy Tech Community College
December 4, 2012
Abstract
Although there is no direct evidence and a species language or their language capabilities do not fossilize, coupled with more modern techniques being used today and archeological evidence, it is possible now to study this topic with more success than in previous years. There is a record that supports the suggestion of Homo neandertal speech capabilities. Previous to the recovery of an intact middle paleolithic hyoid bone, the reconstructed vocal tract and the FOXP2 gene, the lack of evidence on the speech capabilities of Homo neandertals led most scholars to regard the topic as unsuitable for serious study (2012) .
H. neandertal speech capabilities have proven in recent years to be a task capturing much of the time and research of anthropologist. In the 20th century it was commonly thought that H. neandertal was too brutish and simple to have evolved into modern humans, and had very little modern behavior or capabilities. As the fossil record grew and the technology progressed the scientific community found evidence of modern behavior and possibly speech capabilities, that would portray H. neandertal as the advance subspecies he was instead of the brutish, unintelligent being that had been reinforced through the 20th century.
Empirical evidence that supports speech capabilities among H. neandertal could mean origins of modern language, larger cultural leaps than once thought and a variety of social relationships among these archaic Homo Sapiens . It is generally agreed that origins of language are closely tied to the origins of modern human behavior, although there is little agreement on the implications. The discovery of the hyoid bone, reconstructions of the vocal tract including the cranial base and the larynx, the DNA sequence of H. neandertal that carried the FOXP2 gene (fork head box protein) and is known as the
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