Neanderthals polished hides with tools made of deer ribs
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 14:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Neanderthals could have taught modern humans a trick or two. Newly discovered rounded, pointy rib tips of a 45,000-year-old grazing animal, likely used to condition hides, suggests that Neanderthals were fashioning sophisticated tools before humans arrived on the scene.