Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, suggest these predecessors to modern humans had a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought.

Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, suggest these predecessors to modern humans had a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought.

  • @samus12345English
    6•1 year ago

    I thought it was known that their intelligence was comparable to a modern human’s.

    • @[email protected]
      5•1 year ago

      Debated, but the arguments against it sound an awful lot like phrenology, and they keep finding evidence of higher order thinking like this, soooo