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New Research Casts Neanderthals as Techies

By Hugh CollinsSep 25th 2010 – 11:14AM
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Time Life Pictures / Getty Images

(Sept. 25) -- It turns out Neanderthals may not have been the slow, stupid creatures of popular imagination. Call them prehistoric techies. Sure, they may not have had smart phones and laptops, but these short, stocky hominids developed their own tools and adapted their behavior to changing environments, according to a...

40,000-Year-Old Tools Found at Construction Site

By David KnowlesMar 14th 2010 – 5:17PM
Dr. John Isbell

Dr. John Isbell

(March 14) -- It's being dubbed "Tasmania's Valley of the Kings." At the site for a proposed freeway overpass, archaeologists have uncovered what they say are the earliest southernmost artifacts of human life. Still in the initial stages of excavation, a team of archaeologists unearthed thousands of artifacts near the...

homo sapiens News From the Web

  • 06/02/12 How early humans outran the competition Source: The London Free Press - London ON - Canada If we ever think of it, most of us likely consider Neanderthal man as primitive, brutish, more animal than human, who gave way on the evolutionary scale to Cro-Magnon man and early Homo Sapiens . . . us.
  • 05/20/12 Worthington: Going the distance Source: Toronto Sun - Toronto ON - Canada If we ever think of it, most of us probably consider Neanderthal man as something primitive, brutish, more animal than human, who gave way on the evolutionary scale to Cro-Magnon man and early Homo Sapiens ... us.

Background on homo sapiens

Humans (known taxonomically as Homo sapiens, Latin for "wise man" or "knowing man") are the only living species in the Homo genus.

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