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In 1928, the renowned British archaeologist, Dorothy Garrod, excavated the Shukbah Cave in the hills of Palestine, just north of Jerusalem.
This was some of her earliest work in a long and successful career, revealing a rich collection of ancient stone tools, animal bones, and a single fossilised tooth - what looked like a large human molar.
For fifty years the discovery was lost in the private collection of a collaborator, unrecognised and neglected. Then, at the turn of the century, the long-lost tooth landed in the laps of researchers at the British Museum of Natural History.
Looking closely at the large molar, researchers realised it was probably from a young Neanderthal, possibly between the ages of 7 and 12.
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Neanderthals Might Have Used Same Nubian Tools As Homo Sapiens, Says Study
The new study suggests that Neanderthals not only used the tools of modern-day humans but might have interacted with them physically and socially.
A new study suggests that Neanderthals used Nubian tools, previously thought to be exclusive to homo sapiens, disproving theories that the two groups never mingled with each other. The statement comes after scientists examined the tooth found near the remains of a nine-year-old Neanderthal child in Levant, modern-day Palestine. In the study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History suggest that Neanderthals not only used the tools of modern-day humans but might have interacted with them physically and socially.
The view from Shukbah Cave (Credit: Amos Frumkin)
(CN) Neanderthals used stone-shaping technology once thought to be used exclusively by homo sapiens, in a discovery revealed this week that has scientists rethinking how ancient humans developed.
Researchers discovered stone tools in cave sites in the Levant, a historical region in the present-day Middle East, belonging to Neanderthal communities, distant cousins of modern humans.
In a study published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany detailed their findings of the use of Nubian Levallois technology that helped ancient humans craft stone tools by chipping away at stone to make weapons such as spearheads.