A Wooden Club and Other Rare Finds Reveal ‘Invisible’ Side of Neanderthal Life
As one of our closest ancient human relatives, the Neanderthals knew how to exploit natural resources for their benefit. The collection added up to 597 wooden remains and imprints from roughly between 62,000 and 42,000 years ago. The team identified 13 objects that resemble spears and pointed items, bark containers, structural elements, and a club-like object.
- ▪As one of our closest ancient human relatives, the Neanderthals knew how to exploit natural resources for their benefit.
- ▪The collection added up to 597 wooden remains and imprints from roughly between 62,000 and 42,000 years ago.
- ▪The team identified 13 objects that resemble spears and pointed items, bark containers, structural elements, and a club-like object.
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As one of our closest ancient human relatives, the Neanderthals knew how to exploit natural resources for their benefit. That said, some Neanderthal tools survived the wear of time much better than others, so the archaeological record had a large wooden gap—until now.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000822875","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"science","SECTION":"human-history","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"human-history","TAGS":"ancient-humans,archaeology,human-evolution,neanderthal","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); In a Science Advances study published today, scientists report the first…
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