This article is about a new evidence of Neanderthal behavior, a specie near related to the actual humans who lived in the earth since 600.00 years ago and then dissappeared about 30.000 years ago.
It is supposed by Dr Penny Spikins, a young archaeologist at the University of York, that Neanderthal had the possibility to express complex feelings like compasssion. This feeling it's defined like the ability to express empaty respecto to another people or animal even things, when this things evocate a memory related to a feeling.
The evidence that support this hypothesis is the finding of rests in different archaeological sites, like "Shanidar cave in Iraq", attributed to handicapped people who live for a long time, and because of that needed the help of other people from the community.
The long-term care of others is something that we may think of as being a modern human characteristic and for a long time the issue was quite contentious, but recent evidence is refuting this idea.
Even more, rests of a cranium of Homo Heidelbergensis, an ancestor of human modern humans and Neanderthals found in Sima de los Huesos, Spain show evidence of this type of feeeling in our ancestors.
In spite of the controversy, derived from the diffiulty of identify correctlly the features that described this type of behaviors it is logigal to think that this feelings operates like a mecanism that facilitate the establishement of social relationships and evolution of the human specie.
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