"Neandertals pursued a variety oftoolmaking stratigies in their
settlements, showing an aptitude often attributed only to modern humans,
according to an investigation of Stone Age artifacts in a Spanish rock
shelter.
"This finding adds to evidence that behaviors long assumed to have
originated among modern humans beginning around 40,000 years ago actually
appeared much earlier among other Homo species, including Neandertals."
In a related analysis of Stone Age tool traditions, Ofer Bar-Yosef of
Harvard University and Steven L. Kuhn of the University of Arizona in
Tucson conclude that elongated stone blades with sharpened points, often
treated as an invention of modern humans around 40,000 years ago, appeared
as early as 300,000 years ago among various members of theHomo lineage."
"Tooltime in the Stone Age, Science News 156 Oct. 16, 1999, p. 254
I have ordered the original articles:
Bar-Yosef, O., and S.L. Kuhn. 1999. The big deal about blades: Laminar
technologies and human evolution. American Anthropologist 101(June):322ff.
Vaquero, M. 1999. Intrasite spatial organization of lithic production in
the Middle Palaeolithic: The evidence of the Abric Romaní (Capellades,
Spain). Antiquity 73(September):493ff
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