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Article: Neandertals: The Talk of an Early Age?; Childlike Speech Ability, Coexistence With Modern Humans Possible
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 27, 1989
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Neandertal people may not have been the mute brutes they are
often said to have been, but probably were able to talk, an
anthropologist has concluded after discovering an unusual bone in an
Israeli cave.
Even more striking, though more speculative, is the suggestion,
reported simultaneously in today's issue of the British journal
Nature, that a modern form of human being may have lived in the
Middle East more than 90,000 years ago alongside the Neandertals.
The find confirms a report last year that anatomically modern human
bones found in another Israeli cave date from 92,000 years ago.
Until these finds, the earliest known modern humans in Eurasia dated
from about 40,000 years ago.
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