Discoveries at a site in the Middle Rhône Valley reveal behaviorally flexible Neanderthals.
How
"smart" were the Neanderthals, really? The question has been at the
center of scholarly debate for decades. But the findings of recent
research, including archaeological investigations at a site known as
Abri du Maras, near Ardèche, southeastern France, have yielded clues
that may expand the known repertoir of tools and behaviors that
Neanderthals used to survive in the world that existed about 74,000
years ago.
An
international team of scientists from France, the U.S. and Spain
recently conducted residue analysis and zooarchaeological analysis on
stone tools and other materials, including otherwise perishable
materials such as wood fragments, recovered from excavations at the
archaeological site of Abri du Maras in France's Middle Rhône Valley.
What they found was enlightening.
"Neanderthal
behavior is often described in one of two contradictory ways: 1)
Neanderthals were behaviorally inflexible and specialized in large game
hunting or 2) Neanderthals exhibited a wide range of behaviors and
exploited a wide range of resources including plants and small, fast
game," state the authors in a publicly available abstract of a study
soon to be published in Quaternary Science Reviews. But [...] popular-archaeology.com/
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lunes, 4 de noviembre de 2013
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