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Article: Neanderthal man not so dim after all.(News)
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- The Mercury (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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BYLINE: Steve Connor
Neanderthals were not as stupid as they have been portrayed, according to a study showing their stone tools were just as good as those made by the early ancestors of modern humans, Homo sapiens.
Scientists who spent years learning how to make replicas of the stone instruments used by Neanderthals and Homo sapiens have found the Neanderthal tools were just as efficient as anything made by Stone Age man.
And researchers believe the demise of the Neanderthals - often put down to the supposed inferiority of their technology - could not have come about solely as a result of their stone tools being worse than those of rivals.
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