neanderthals
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Smart Neanderthals Made Tools Using Glue, Study Finds
A trove of Neanderthal tools made between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago were forged with glue, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the objects. The research revealed the oldest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, according to an NYU release. The adhesive—composed of bitumen, an asphalt component that also occurs naturally…
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Italian Cave Fossils Suggest Nine Neanderthals Were Feasted Upon by Hyenas
Archaeologists working at a cave site near Rome have found the mineralised remains of nine Neanderthals, in what’s being hailed as an “extraordinary discovery.” A significant number of these bones show clear signs of gnawing, leading the team to believe the Neanderthals were being preyed upon or scavenged by hyenas.
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Neanderthals Didn’t Use Their Thumbs Like We Do, New Research Suggests
An analysis of Neanderthal hand bones suggests these extinct humans possessed thumbs better suited for power grips, as opposed to precision grips, which could mean they used their hands differently than we do.
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Study Suggests Early Humans Had Even More Interspecies Sex
Before we became the only remaining humans on the planet, Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals and the closely related Denisovans. New research is now revealing that the common ancestor of Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with its own predecessor, a population of “superarchaic” hominids.