segunda-feira, 5 de março de 2012

Evidence suggests Neanderthals took to boats before modern humans

The Reconstruction of the Funeral of 
Homo neanderthalensis. Captured in the
Hannover Zoo. (Via Wikipedia)
(PhysOrg.com) Neanderthals, considered either a sub-species of modern humans or a separate species altogether, lived from approximately 300,000 years ago to somewhere near 24,000 years ago, when they inexplicably disappeared, leaving behind traces of their DNA in some Middle Eastern people and artifacts strewn all across the southern part of Europe and extending into western Asia. Some of those artifacts, stone tools that are uniquely associated with them, have been found on islands in the Mediterranean Sea, suggesting, according to a paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, by George Ferentinos and colleagues, that Neanderthals had figured out how to travel by boat. And if they did, it appears they did so before modern humans.

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