[edwin hubble]

blam,
I am amazed at how you find all this fascinating material.

So...
Neanderthals buried their dead with flowers?
Made detailed or intricate tools?
Used skins and fur of animals for clothing in very cold climates?
Made glue?


But aren't they thought to have lacked the capacity for speech as we know it?
And how do we think this sophisticated information was conveyed and made part of the culture?

[RightWhale]

aren't they thought to have lacked the capacity for speech as we know it?

The men were silent, as befits someone trying to sneak up on large game animals and bash them with rocks. The women, though, mainly sat around the cook fire cooking and gossiping endlessly about the men.

[blam]

"But aren't they thought to have lacked the capacity for speech as we know it? "

No, no, they could speak. A few years ago, a rarely surviving bone that is required for speech was found with a Neanderthal skull. (They were believed not to have this small bone)

[null and void]

But aren't they thought to have lacked the capacity for speech as we know it?

Yes, larynx is too high to allow proper vowel formation. I guess the people who think they couldn't talk never heard a Bantu speak in clicks, a Basque shepherd 'talk' to a friend on the next mountain with whistles, or seen anyone sign...