[not rock pile related] This is from here at Yahoo News:
"The Neanderthal genome revealed that people outside Africa share more
genetic mutations with Neanderthals than Africans do. One possible
explanation is that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals mostly after the modern lineage began appearing outside Africa
at least 100,000 years ago. Another, more complex scenario is that an
African group ancestral to both Neanderthals and certain modern human
populations genetically split from other Africans beginning about
230,000 years ago. This group then stayed genetically distinct until it
eventually left Africa."
To repeat that: people outside Africa are more similar to Neanderthals than they are to people in Africa. That seems somehow significant. Doesn't it suggest that modern man arose outside of Africa? The article's author was resisting that interpretation.
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This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
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It doesn't seem to say that modern man shares more genes with Neanderthals than with Africans. It says that modern man shares more genes with Neander thals than Africans share genes with Neanderthals. Completely different thing. Just means that Africans did not interbreed, at least as much as modern man did,with Neanderthals.
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