The Cave of the Neanderthal Tools [ENCORE]
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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The Neanderthal Method of Making Tools
Neanderthals had many different, really specific, systematic ways of taking stone apart. We can watch them switch between one method and another on the same block of stone as they encounter a problem. What we can see by keeping all the stuff is so much richer than what we would have learned if we had only kept the finished article. And that's what those early archaeologists miss. By only seeing the big finish tools and blowing the place up.
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