How Did Urch Die?

It's certainly possible that Neanderthal X died in a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/ArmchairGeneralist/%7E3/SZ4XLzEGyDw/unending-conflicts.html"violent confrontation/a witha href="http://www.livescience.com/history/090721-neanderthal-murder.html" modern humans. /aHowever, I think that there's always a danger in reading our own social understandings into a historical record. There are innumerable scenarios under which the Neanderthal in question could have died, and while "genocidal no-holds-barred Human-Neanderthal throw down" is one of them, it's not the only or even the most compelling. Perhaps the most interesting question is why we seem to leap to the genocide explanation. What alternative narrative of the death of Neanderthal X can we imagine? Hmmm.... What can we imagine....br /br /Cast of Characters:br /Throg, Chairman, Neanderthal-Human Friendship Committeebr /Chuck, Chief Executive, Neanderthal-Human Friendship Gamesbr /Urch, Gold Medalist and Record Holder, Spear Tossbr /Steve, Silver Medalist, Spear Tossbr /Githrak, Drunken fanbr /br /Scene: Neanderthal-Human Friendship Games, Year of the Sea Pigbr /blockquotespan style="font-weight: bold;"Throg:/span Ah, Chuck; good to see you again. Games are going well. Excellent work this year.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Steve:/span Many thanks, Throg. Couldn't have done it without the support of the committee as a whole.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Throg:/span Ah, time for the Spear Toss. Urch, planning to break last year's record?br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Urch:/span Going to give it 110%.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Steve:/span I notice you're competing for the human team this year. That's quite a shift.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Urch:/span Well, there were some sponsor issues.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Steve: /spanOf course.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Throg:/span Hope that the change in teams doesn't make you go soft, Urch. Chuck here has been hungry for this for a long time.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Chuck:/span Oh, no worries. I don't think that Urch is going to take it easy on me.br /[Hearty laugh all around]br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Steve:/span Alright, on my mark....1...2...3... Urch Go!br /[Urch throws spear]br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Chuck: /spanDamn.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Throg:/span That was one hell of a throw.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Urch:/span Got all of it. [Urch runs to retrieve spear, as Chuck prepares]br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Githrak:/span [carrying 44 oz beer, slurring speech] Damnnnn. Ain't nuthin, Chuck. You gots it.br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Steve:/span Think that's a record, Throg?br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Throg: /spanMaybe so!br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Githrak: /spanGo Chuck. Go Chuck. Go Chuck!! CHUCK GO!!! [Chuck throws spear, hitting Urch]br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Throg:/span Oh, gods no!br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Chuck:/span Urch.... my friend.... oh no....br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Urch:/span [gasps] Chuck.... why? [gurgles, and expires]br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Throg:/span This is horrible! Who could have thought that spear tossing would lead to tragedy?br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Steve: /spanThis event is bound to shake the sport of Spear Tossing to its very foundations, Throg.br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"fin /span/blockquoteReaders are invited to develop their own scenario in comments.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-89021529608262677?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div

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