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Article: LACK OF PROJECTILE WEAPONS MIGHT HAVE LEAD TO NEANDERTHALS' EXTINCTION

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January 15, 2009
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Washington, Jan. 15 -- (ANI): A trio of new studies on prehistoric weapons has suggested that though the Neanderthals made sophisticated weapons and tools, they lacked the projectile weapons possessed by early humans, which probably contributed to their eventual extinction.

According to a report in Discovery News, the missing technology, along with climate change and competition with arrow-shooting humans, may have played a part in their die off.

"While we are not suggesting that modern humans were directing projectile weapons against Neanderthals, it is certainly possible that at times they did so," said Steven ...

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