Ingenious Neanderthal Bone Tool Found in Belgian Cave

Archaeology Magazine ^ | July 11, 2025 | editors / unattributed

[Adder]

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...”

[MtnClimber]

Grog say campfire make flat world warming. Only 5.35 years left.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Atlatls are far better big game weapons then bow and arrows.

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

[Candor7]

A Neanderthal multi tool!

[SunkenCiv]

• Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ] [06/15/2009]

[Red Badger]

[SunkenCiv]

😊

[ckilmer]

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.

[Palio di Siena]

bone tool ….could have other uses

[SunkenCiv]

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.