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Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says – The Guardian
Archaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiens
ArchaeologyArchaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiens
Mon 15 Mar 2021 12.38 EDT
When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they exchanged ideas that led to a surge in creativity, according to a leading academic.
Tom Higham, a professor of archaeological science at the University of Oxford, argues…
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