Still Waters Posted January 21, 2017 #1 Share Posted January 21, 2017 An international group that includes a University of Kansas researcher has discovered a brownish piece of split limestone in a site in Croatia that suggests Neanderthals 130,000 years ago collected the rock that stands out among all other items in the cave. "If we were walking and picked up this rock, we would have taken it home," said David Frayer, a professor emeritus of anthropology who was part of the study. "It is an interesting rock." The finding is important, he said, because it adds to other recent evidence that Neanderthals were capable—on their own—of incorporating symbolic objects into their culture. https://phys.org/news/2017-01-discovery-neanderthal-repertoire.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted January 21, 2017 #2 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Thanks for this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonFromPorlock Posted January 21, 2017 #3 Share Posted January 21, 2017 (edited) Time to re-assert my suggestion that big-brained Neanderthal was smarter than us and spent all his time debating ontological questions instead of getting on with it and inventing the steam engine. Edited January 21, 2017 by PersonFromPorlock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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