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Neanderthals

The Ancients

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Do We Know the Size of a Neandta Community?

Do we have any idea about what sorts of tasks would have been right at the heart of a neandta community, let's say, with the butchering of food? Yes. It's really, really hard. The group sized thing is one of the hardest questions that we have to deal with. In some places, we do actually have evidence for for sort of this sub micro layering where it could well be that many individual occupations. But in other sights, specially large sihts, physically large areas, we're able to make arguments that sometimes there was more than one half active at the same time. So when you combine all these different kinds of data,. What we see is

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