Stone Tools of the Neandertals

This is the first discussion we have had in our pocas about clothing or body decoration. It is thought that this was a human tradition that could have existed for a long time, maybe as a means to demonstrate that in duals were connected to one tribe. This leads us nicely into the technological advances of the neander tol man. Unlike the ashulian tradition of in a toll from a stone core, the musterian tools demonstrated a technique referred to as the le valoir technique. In other words, the core is worked usein stone for hard percussion, and bones and antlers for soft percussion. This worked stone core is then struck to produce flakes, which can then be