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Unlikely cave discovery suggests Neanderthals and humans shared a common culture - CNN

By Katie Hunt

Unlikely cave discovery suggests Neanderthals and humans shared a common culture - CNN

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted the same animals and both collected shells.

Ancient DNA revealed that our species, Homo sapiens, once interbred with Neanderthals, but what was the nature of those Stone Age encounters tens of thousands of years ago?
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