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Article: Neanderthals did not sew enough warm clothes to survive Ice Age: Expert

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December 21, 2007
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Melbourne, Dec. 21 -- Unlike modern humans, Neanderthals may not have been able to sew warm enough clothes to see them through the Ice Age.

Neanderthals probably froze to death in the last Ice Age because rapid climate change caught them by surprise without the tools needed to make warm clothes, says an Australian researcher.

Ian Gilligan, a post-graduate researcher from the Australian National University believes that by the time Neanderthals developed sewing tools it was too little too late.

Neanderthals began to die out just before the last glacial maximum, 35 to 30,000 years ago and were replaced by modern humans, ...

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