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'Complexity' of Neanderthal Tools
from the BBC News Online
Early stone tools developed by our species Homo sapiens were no more sophisticated than those used by our extinct relatives the Neanderthals.
That is the conclusion of researchers who recreated and compared tools used by these ancient human groups. The findings cast doubt on suggestions that more advanced stone technologies gave modern humans a competitive edge over the Neanderthals.
The work by a US-British team appears in the Journal of Human Evolution. The researchers recreated wide stone tools called "flakes," which were used by both Neanderthals and early modern humans.
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