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Article: Neanderthals 'were jewellery designers'
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- August 28, 2006
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NeandertHals were much more advanced than has previously been
thought, new research suggests.
A new examination of finds from a famous cave site indicates that
they designed and made their own jewellery.
It had been assumed the decorated ornaments found with their bones
were "borrowed" from ancestors of modern humans, or copied.
This is now believed to have been a mistake, caused by untidy
Victorian fossil hunters. Neanderthals lived in Europe long before
the arrival of early modern humans, Homo sapiens, 40,000 years ago.
The two human sub-species existed side-by-side for about 10,000
years, after which the Neanderthals vanished.
Scientists think they were driven to extinction by modern ...