"he had made a scourge of small cords" - Neanderthal without Threads

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Neanderthal without Threads

Syria is situated in the north of Israel which has become the historical and spiritual center of the world as with the geographical center between Africa, Asia, and Europe.

If ancient Hebrews and Israelis had been more greater, Syrian might have been taken by ancient Israel as its territory.  But, God restricted the scope of the ancient kingdom of Hebrews so that it did not cover Syria.  As a consequence, ancient Israel did not suffer so much invasion and occupation by other tribes, other kingdoms, and other empires.

But in more older days, for example, for Neanderthal, there must not have been distinction between Syria and Israel as they preceded humans in advancing out of Africa.  

The oldest remains found in Syria date from the Palaeolithic era (c.800,000 BC). On 23 August 1993 a joint Japan-Syria excavation team discovered fossilized Paleolithic human remains at the Dederiyeh Cave some 400 km north of Damascus. The bones found in this massive cave were those of a Neanderthal child, estimated to have been about two years old, who lived in the Middle Palaeolithic era (ca. 200,000 to 40,000 years ago). Although many Neanderthal bones had been discovered already, this was practically the first time that an almost complete child's skeleton had been found in its original burial state.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Syria

Indeed, it is thought that humans and Neanderthal interbred in the Middle East though such cases seems to have been very much limited.

An estimated 1 to 4 percent of the DNA in Europeans and Asians (French, Chinese and Papua probands) is non-modern, and shared with ancient Neanderthal DNA rather than with Sub-Saharan Africans (Yoruba and San probands).[19] Nonetheless, more recent genetic studies seem to suggest that modern humans may have mated with "at least two groups" of ancient humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

Anyway, Neanderthal disappeared long before humans started their civilization.

Climate change

About 55,000 years ago, the weather began to fluctuate wildly from extreme cold conditions to mild cold and back in a matter of a few decades. Neanderthal bodies were well suited for survival in a cold climate—their barrel chests and stocky limbs stored body heat better than the Cro-Magnons. However, the rapid fluctuations of weather caused ecological changes to which the Neanderthals could not adapt; familiar plants and animals would be replaced by completely different ones within a lifetime. Neanderthals' ambush techniques would have failed as grasslands replaced trees. A large number of Neanderthals would have died during these fluctuations, which peaked about 30,000 years ago.[104]

Studies on Neanderthal body structures have shown that they needed more energy to survive than any other species of hominid. Their energy needs were up to 100–350 calories more per day comparing to projected anatomically modern human males weighing 68.5 kg (151.0 lbs) and females 59.2 kg (130.5 lbs).[105] When food became scarce, this difference may have played a major role in the Neanderthals' extinction.

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A Campanian ignimbrite volcanic super-eruption around 40,000 years ago, followed by a second one a few thousand years later, has been hypothesised as having contributed to the demise of the Neanderthal, based on evidence from Mezmaiskaya cave in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

So, Neanderthal got extinct due to a drastic climate change in addition to huge volcano eruptions.

But how could humans come through this sever conditions.

Compared with temperature observed 15,000 years ago, today's temperature is +/- 2 degrees.
But 40,000 years ago it was minus 20 degrees, and temperature 38,000 years ago to 30,000 years ago was minus 23 degrees in the comparison.  According to a theory, only 10,000 humans lived on the earth 35,000 years ago.

However, humans could survive because they invented threads. They started to make clothes using threads to cope with cold climate.  But, probably Neanderthal could not use threads.  They could not protect their bodies from coldness to get extinct eventually.

Now human beings face another climate challenge whether it is global warming or cooling.  Without another great invention, like threads 30,000 years ago, humans might start to be destined to extermination like Neanderthal  30,000 years ago.

Stop the war in Syria and start to get ready for a coming critical natural disaster, putting heads of all the humans together.





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Joh 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Joh 2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
Joh 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
Joh 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.