Neanderthals liked decorating too: ‘Interesting’ rock was collected by one of our ancient cousins and placed inside a cave 130,000 years ago
They have long been dismissed as primitive and unintelligent brutes. But now, an ‘interesting’ stone has added to mounting evidence that Neanderthals had their own relatively sophisticated culture and may have cherished symbolic objects. Researchers discovered a brown piece of split limestone in a site in Croatia that suggests a ... Read More »