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That dig in Portugal changed how I think about Neanderthals
I was reading about the 2017 excavation at Gruta da Oliveira where they found Neanderthal remains with cut marks from stone tools. The wild part is these bones were dated to around 71,000 years ago, way later than I assumed they were in southern Europe. Has anyone else run across a date or site that flipped your view of a period?
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matthewross8h ago
We found a Neanderthal hand axe near my uncle's farm in Norfolk back in '09, just sitting there in a plowed field after a rainy spring. The flint was all patinated white, looked like a rock until you saw the flaking pattern.
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the_nathan6h ago
Man, finding a hand axe in a plowed field is way cooler than anything I've found. My best field find was a rusty tractor part I thought was a Roman coin for like ten seconds.
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