Archaeology

Research finds Neandertals, not modern humans, made first specialized bone tools in Europe

22 Sep , 2013  

“One day in 2011, undergraduate student Naomi Martisius was sorting through tiny bone remnants in the University of California, Davis, paleoanthropology lab when she stumbled across a peculiar piece. The bone fragment, from a French archaeological site, turned out to be a part of an early specialized bone tool used by a Neandertal before the first […]

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