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Title: Neanderthals speak out
Post by: Sarah90 on April 16, 2008, 02:08:30 AM
***www.NewScientist.com - NEWSFLASH***

Neanderthals speak out after 30,000 years

Talk about a long silence - no one has heard their voices for 30,000 years. Now the long-extinct Neanderthals are speaking up - or at least a computer synthesiser is doing so on their behalf. We have the sound files.


Read the story and listen here:

http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eBUgq0W8ZRN0mli0Expq0ER (http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eBUgq0W8ZRN0mli0Expq0ER)  or just to hear go to: http://media.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn13672A1.wav (http://media.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn13672A1.wav)


Title: Re: Neanderthals speak out
Post by: SHJ on April 17, 2008, 02:29:13 PM
Interesting link Sarah. I always assumed Neanderthals just grunted and these folks who took the trouble to figure out our predecessor's voice-box 30,000-some years later deserve kudos.

Heh, can you imagine one of these low-brows singing in the shower? Yikes!  :dizzy2.gif: