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Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age
A wooden object from the Abric RomanĆ site interpreted as a wooden clubGerard Campeny/IPHES-CERCA Wooden tools, weapons, building materials and domestic items discovered in a Spanish cave challenge the assumption that Neanderthalsā technological life was based primarily on stone. The finds have given an unprecedented glimpse into everyday Neanderthal life and are a rare opportunity to recover part of their missing world, says Josep VallverdĆŗ at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Spain. āNeanderthal technology was not only made of stone; it was also made of wood,ā he says. Advertisement if( window?.adverts?.addToArray ) { window.adverts.addToArray( { "pos": "m...
