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Rare traces of wooden tools reveal Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers
There is even more evidence that Neanderthals were far from the simple cave dwellers we once thought them to be.
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Archaeologists near Barcelona, Spain, uncovered a clublike artifact and several other wooden tools at a Neanderthal site. The find indicates that Neanderthals produced and used crafted wooden implements. This evidence challenges earlier views of them as simple cave dwellers and suggests they possessed advanced woodworking skills.
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