Science News, October 13th, 1990
Tracking Neanderthal hunters
Preliminary excavations conducted in 1988 and 1989 inside a cave on Italy's west coast, as well as evidence from four nearby cave sites, suggest that sometime between 55,000 and 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals in the region shifted from periodic scavenging of animal carcasses to consistent ambush hunting--a tactic often associated only with anatomically modern humans. In fact, Neanderthal artifacts from that period closely resemble those of modern Homo sapiens inhabiting western Italy around 30,000 years ago, reports anthropoligist Steven L. Kuhn of the Universit...
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