Rewriting the Timeline: Neanderthal Innovation at Schöningen
Anthropology.net
MAY 10, 2025
In a soggy pit on the shores of an ancient lake in what is now central Germany, a cache of wooden spears lay hidden for nearly a quarter of a million years. When they were first unearthed in the 1990s from the Schöningen site, archaeologists believed these weapons might have been crafted by Homo heidelbergensis —a hominin species ancestral to Neanderthals and perhaps to us.
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