Neanderthal Tool CulturesCourtesy Karen Ruebens
Neanderthal Tool CulturesCourtesy Karen Ruebens
Stonemart put all the mom and pop competitors out of business.
That looks like the old Indian arrow heads from over here.
“A separate study, led by Marie Soressi at Leiden University, shows that Neanderthals also may have taught our Homo sapiens ancestors a thing or two. “
Well of course they did. Everyone’s smarter than whoever the hell we were back then.
> Neanderthals seem to have produced a remarkably consistent set of stone tools for hundreds of thousands of years.
That’s conservatism! ;-)
There are a large number of cultural habits that distance Homo sapiens from animals. No other organisms, either living or fossil, made tools to make other complex tools, buried their dead, had controlled use of fire, practiced religious ceremonies, used complex syntax in their spoken grammar, and played musical instruments, yet we know from their fossils that Neanderthal engaged in all.
So I can hear them sitting around the fire debating the relative merits of various stones...” well granite is the hardest but hard to flake...the best is obsidian but hard to find... gimme a good flint any time.”
Sad that the Neanderthal de Walts were undercut by cheap Chinese goods...
Do I or don’t I want to see the poster of the “neaderthal tool time girl”?
