Who were the scariest looking soldiers/warriors in history?
When I put myself in the shoes (or lack thereof) of the scared people, I doubt anyone has been more scared than the first wave of migrants out of Africa who encountered Neanderthals 120 000 years ago.
You have to remember these MLB Tropical Flower Pattern Cool LA Dodgers Hawaiian Shirt were diminutive pygmies, standing about 5 feet tall tops, and weighing 100 lbs-
Also, as paleolithic hunter gatherers they were super skittish and lived on edge with a mental state governed by heightened fear, caution and superstition.
Neanderthals were short-ish by today’s standards, at around 5′8″, but that would have been absolutely huge to these people, and not only that, they were very broad and powerfully built. The above artwork by Frank Frazetta likely isn’t a Major League Baseball MLB 3D LA Dodgers Hawaiian Shirt For Real Fans accurate depiction, but I think it captures the impression they would have given to the first homo sapiens they would have encountered. Like monstrous brutes.
There’s another misconception that homo sapiens were dominant over neanderthals. They were anything but, Neanderthal distribution formed a wall that humans did not penetrate for tens of thousands of years. As did denisovan distribution (denisovan an even larger cousin of the Neanderthal that lived in Asia).
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Homo sapiens couldn’t move into neanderthal or denisovan country, lest they get raped and eaten, in that order. The fear of seeing them therefore likely would have been horrifying beyond anything we could experience today.
Homo sapiens were forced to stay out of their way until around 40 000 years ago, at which LA Dodgers Hawaiian Shirt something changed to a point where they could start competing (and ultimately out-competing) these formidable hominids.
