Posted on 07/15/2025 3:23:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Evidence continues to mount that Neanderthals were a much more intelligent species than scientists originally suspected. Popular Science reports that archaeologists uncovered a remarkable, multifunctional tool from Belgium's Scladina Cave. The utensil was fashioned from the tibia of an extinct cave lion 130,000 years ago and had four different functional components. Researchers believe that it may have originally been created for use in tasks such as chiseling, but as some of the points wore down, they were reshaped and repurposed for other jobs, such as sharpening and retouching flints. According to the report, the team stated that "the intentional transformation of lion bones into functional tools highlights Neanderthals' cognitive skills, adaptability, and capacity for resource utilization beyond their immediate survival needs." Read the original scholarly article about this research in Scientific Reports. For more, go to "Neanderthal Tool Time."
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Stanley Neanderthal...still turning out tools...
Wait until they find the tape measure made from aurock guts..
“It’s not a bone....its a Stanley...”
Grog say campfire make flat world warming. Only 5.35 years left.
Who knows if the Neanderthal had those but it is possible.
The weapon is unknown in Africa (as far as we have found) but suddenly pops up all over the rest of the world
A Neanderthal multi tool!
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I’m sure killing a mammoth with a spear works, and trying to kill it with a bow and arrow wouldn’t.
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True. But if a group of humans encountered a group of neanderthals—the group with the bow and arrows would be dominant. Because at first the neanderthals would not even know what hit them.
That would cause the kind of fear that would cause the Neanderthals to shink from contact with humans.
That would also explain why for the first time neanderthal ranges shrank into ever smaller pockets.
bone tool ….could have other uses
Morphologically, Neandertals can't be seen (apart from some occasional behemoth athlete). The modern human population carries a varied about of DNA from them, which is because they are among our ancestors. The percentage is roughly the same as each of us carry from each of 46 of our great-great-great-great-grandcestors.
When your life depends on what you do next you become inventive.
I did some checking. It turns out the neanderthal in us comes from the neanderthal male line from roughly 53000—44000 with the median age about 47000 years ago. Not the female line. That means human males did not take neanderthal females. Only neanderthal males took human females.
That’s similar to most male lines in europe today come from the steppe herders of today’s Ukraine from 4000-5000 years ago.
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