According to main stream science, Cro-Magnon man is just like you and me: perfect and genuine Homo Sapiens Sapiens.See page He -or we- might have ancestors, Homo Faber, Homo Erectus, and cousins too, descending from the same ancestor long ago. Several hominidae species lived at the same time. Were they friends or ennemies?

Until the last ice age, Cro-Magnon had a tough rival, stronger than him: Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis or Neanderthal Man. Beneath an ape-like exterior, he had a more solid skeleton, and apparently stonger muscles. A bigger nose allowed him to warm the cold air of ice age. For paleologists, it shows a perfect adaptation to ice-age climates;See Les glaciers du Würm a species takes a long time to adapt; quick adaptation may suggest a helping hand? Former GodsSee Our Creators might have been bright in genetics.

Other features of Neanderthal man include a more proeminent arch of the eyebrows, and no chin. And above all, this touchy point: a superior skull capacity to contain a larger brain.If so, this woudn't mean they were more intelligent, since intelligence has nothing to do with brain size. Loïc HibonA courageous anthropologist indeed! See page protests: "Neanderthals had not a brain volume superior than modern man's. The average was calculated on half a dozen individuals (...), and it is not scientific to conclude anything out of that! On the other hand, if modern man has an average volume of 9.2 cu in, actual sizes are between 6.1 and 12.2 cu in". 

Recently, scientists proved that Neanderthal is not only our cousin, but one of our ancestors. He and Cro-Magnon did have babies. Geneticians have found some Neanderthal genetic material in both European and Asian blood, but none in African blood. A new story will emerge, introducing new interactions between our two species, and that will be thoroughly interesting. Anyway, the role of former human geneticians in the creation of Neanderthal remains a possible occurence.

Beside difficult scientific debates, there's a few artists or story tellers interested on our forgot cousin. But exceptions are most noticeable. Frank Frazetta and JRR Tolkien are two of the best ones. Tolkien wrote tales to read to his sons. He invented everything, at least that's what he said. As every prominent storytellers, innocently, he could pick up his tales in akashic records,See Les annales akashiques a mysterious data base where is written the world's history. Do we really invent a single thing?

Knowing it or not, Tolkien did the deed. His Lord of the Rings is a chronicle of our forgotten past. The truth beneath the tale is a part of this masterpiece's wide audience. Tolkien described the wild wars between decadent men and their numerous ennemies, in the centuries after the Flood. It was the Bronze Age,See L'âge de bronze and they fought neandertalians, that Tolkien called orks. Other sources evoke those basic men, more dangerous because of their rude strength than of their intelligence.

Mahabharata  called them  Rakshasas, giant, flesh-eating monsters.  Fairy talesVoir L'or pur des contes called them ogres.

According to paleoanthropologists, neandertalians do not deserve this bestial reputation. Scientists found no trace of fight between us and them. But once again, the absence of proof is not a proof of absence. For our ancestors, neandertalians probably were more useful than dangerous.  Edgar CayceSee Cayce a vu juste called the robots, or things ; he said they were our slaves… Reading him, we understand that long ago a superior man created them for man's use, as Golem was, according to Hebraic Kabbalah tradition.

"Genetics get their most efficiency to  separate  rival theories. In Pacific area, genetics easily prooved Polynesians' asiatic origin against the american origine theory of HeyerdahlThor Heyerdahl thought Oceanian population came from South America, instead of Asia as main stream theory asserted. To proove that, Thor Heyerdahl sailed on Kon-Tiki, a strawboat board across Pacific ocean from Peru to Tuamotou Islands in less than 3 monthes. and his Kon-Tiki." Are genetics able to give such a clear answer to the doom of neandertalians ? Bryan SykesBryan Sykes is a British scientist known for his researches on DNA in his best-seller essay The Seven Daughters of Eve showed we had no interbreeding with them, but he was wrong as other scientists recently showed. Even theory of evolution must evolve.

Our last common ancestor died 250.000 years ago, he added seriously. He was seriously wrong.

Sykes added again: "Fossils clearly show that Neandertal men subsisted at least 15,000 years after the first Cro-Magnon men had reached western Europe, some 40,000 or 50,000 years ago. When the last Neandertal man died, a complete chapter of evolotion ended, a complete chapter of human settlement in Europe closed. A 250.000 years era finished, in a radical and final way, in a cave of southern Spain 28,000 years ago." Could he be wrong again?

If we can easily proof the existence of a species, it is not so easy to proove its disparition. As people say, absence of proof is not a proof of absence.

What if some Neandertal men had survive until today? Or any other prehistoric hominidae?

Michael Cremo believe it. According to him, YetiOr Migu of Himalaya of Lhasa or Sasquatchor Bigfoot of Rocky Mountains of Missoula are the last survivors of these archaic species.  (source)

They are just a few, we frighten them so the ran away, in desert ranges or uneasy mountaintops. Unlike us, they did not forget the cruel defeat against our ancestors, so many years ago, so many of them lying dead all around, and rivers were all blood.If Tolkien was right, which is quite possible It happenned 30.000 years ago in southern Europe. Actually, under every sky, trustful men and women have met those anthropoïds. Some of these witnesses even had quite a long relationship with those wild creatures.And the material traces of their presence are numerous enough to dispel the doubts of anthropologists and geneticists.

They are not interested yet, with rare exceptions. Unfortunately, no documentary film or television interview of these superstars prehistory. In this world, you might be an abominable snowman, if they don't see tou on TV, you do not exist. Bye-bye Yeti. Science and opinion prefer to see you in Tintin comics. They are so powerful, our prejudices. So persistent, the scientific dogma.

It is so tight, our mental world. Hard to retrieve it. Herge believed in the Yeti, and he is not alone. Forbidden Archaeology presents the many cousins of Bigfoot and Sasquatch: Sisimite of Mexico, Shiru of Ecuador, Brazil Mapinguary, the Almas of Mongolia, China Maoren the Batutut Indonesia, the Orang pendek of Malaysia, or Agogwe East Africa. To the question: "Can there be on earth an unknown hominid species?" Our authors say yes without hesitation.

"Many people will find it hard to believe for two reasons. They assume that every square inch of land has been fully explored. And they assume that science has established a complete inventory of all living animal species. The two assumptions are inaccurate. " (source) True, the earth is not as well known that one imagines. The seabed is largely unexplored rain; some forests remain mysterious; the peaks are home to a wildlife that we know very little.

Hergé is-he right? Do we will see our Neanderthal cousins again?

To be continued …