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...wiped them out, though, a consensus has been growing for years that it wasn't because the Neanderthals were short on raw intelligence. Their brains were as big as ours, and we've known for a century that they buried their dead just as we do; they also made stone tools, and theirs have been found in association with painted shells and other baubles. But maybe there was a subtler difference in our brains. Some paleoanthropologists have said that when our ancestors made jewelry, for example, it implied the ability to think symbolically - that the adornment represented individuality or status...
...used (in ancient Egypt, for example, so we have actual records) for body painting. "There's a sector of the profession," says Zilhão, "that's been healthily skeptical of our work in the past. But in this case, the problems of dating don't exist." (Read "CSI Stone Age: Did Humans Kill Neanderthals...
...jewels, body paint and burials the only evidence for Neanderthal ingenuity. Several years ago, German scientists published a study saying that Neanderthals were manufacturing tarlike pitch out of tree resins, which they then used to affix stone points to wooden shafts. "This isn't an easy thing to do," says Zilhão. "It involves several hours of processing at 400 degrees. These guys made the first artificial raw material in the history of mankind...
...don’t think they were that difficult to save,” Stone said. “When we had real Grade-A chances, we shot it right into [Vigilanti’s] pads or shot it wide. We played on the periphery and didn’t jump into the deep...
...We’ve come back a lot this year,” Stone said. “[The Harvard skaters] kept the game very simple. They used the people that were open...