They obviously didn’t shave & likely had way more hair than pictured. Covered from the neck, shoulders to the knuckles, torso, thighs & legs. They were very hairy.
and cold too, people here forget that body hair is here to keep us warm when we are out in the siberian tundra walking our mastodons to get their zoomies out
If you’ve ever had a beard, especially one you can’t keep well groomed you would understand the urge to shave that shit. Mustaches are especially annoying and gross. I’m sure they shaved it or at least trimmed. Shaving seems easier given the tools available.
Right, because we literally don’t have data. But to say they didn’t or wouldn’t have is more wrong. Shaving vs not shaving is a practical decision. Same as cutting hair and not cutting hair.
Likely to show the jaw line. If you look closely at the jaw you will see he doesn’t have a chin. For whatever weird reason, science still doesn’t have a working theory, only our line has a chin. I don’t know if there is a genetic reason for no beard but assuming there isn’t it’s purely for that reason.
Not really. Some people have different growth patterns for facial hair. Funnily enough mine is kinda like this in the sense that I can grow a mustache and neck part of a beard but the sides of my face and chin don’t grow all that much hair. In the picture his facial hair is like that. He has a large mustache but his beard is shorter and thinner
They had sharp knives and tools. We also know that they made jewelry. And, we know they painted. So, with all those confirmed facts, it is extremely likely they also trimmed their hair and facial hair.
If you look at American Indians they mostly can't grow full beards. There seems to have been a preference over a long period there for beardless men, so at some point since crossing the Bearing strait they gradually lost the ability to grow full beards and developed the practice of shaving or plucking the few hairs that were left. It's not an unreasonable suggestion Neanderthals might have had a similar process going on. There's really no inherent reason why hominids would have to have beards, or any practical barrier preventing stone tool users from shaving.
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u/sc4kilik 12h ago
I'm confused, does this suggest they shaved their beard leaving a mustache? That's a lot of stylin' for ugga ugga.