Middle Paleolithic stone core from the Heidenschmiede. By re-assembling these stone artifacts, the research team revealed the many different techniques used in stone tool manufacturing. Credit: Universitaet Tübingen
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>> Neanderthals possessed great mental flexibility and adaptability, coupled with manual dexterity.
God forbid the modern world is preserved within the ashes.
The world could start a million times and we would would repeat the same trail a million times.
I have always believed that the human brain is pre-programed and "living" taps this brain resource as needed...a process I call "pondering"...or the search for a solution.
“Ugh-Garshbag borrow my flaker, never bring back.
They never stopped developing...today they make machine tools.
Of course, all of this was just what people needed to survive, hunt and trade with the big cities on the coast and at river mouths - now under hundreds of feet of water and more hundreds of feet of sediment.