A new study suggests that Neanderthals used Nubian machines, previously thought exclusive to homo sapiens, getting rid of theories that the two groups never mixed with each other. The statement comes after scientists examined the tooth found near the remains of a nine-year-old Neanderthal child in Levant, present-day Palestine. In the study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History suggest that Neanderthals did not use modern human devices but may have interacted with them physically and socially.
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The tooth was first discovered in 1928
This came to light after researchers decided to review the fossil record and archeology of the Shuqba cave. The tooth examined by the researchers has been kept in a private collection at the Natural History Museum in London for all these years since its discovery in 1928. After examination of the tooth, co- the researchers concluded that it belonged to a nine-year-old Neanderthal child.
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“Sites, where hominin fossils are directly linked to stone tool collections, are still rare – but the study of both fossils and tools is crucial to understanding the roles of hominin in Shukbah Cave and the wider area. pictures of the stone tool collections from Shukbah linked at the presence of Levallois Nubian technology so we revisited the collections to explore further.In the end, we identified many more materials that were brought to out using Nubian Levallois methods than we expected, “said Phys Org, lead author of Dr. Jimbob Blinkhorn.
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Neanderthals are a group of extinct primates, living all over Eurasia about 40,000 years ago. It is believed that Neanderthals may have become extinct due to a major change in climate, an unknown disease, or a combination of both of these factors. Neanderthals themselves are thought to have used very sophisticated technology and may also have had some of the stone tools used by modern people. But it has always been suggested that Neanderthals never used Nubian technology, which now seems to be wrong.
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