A Discovery in the Cantabrian Cave of El Castillo Further Narrows the Differences of the Neanderthals with Our Species

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The finding of six small syllex knives found in the Cantabrian cave of El Castillo, in Puente Viesgo, one of the most important in the world for the study of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, concludes that the population of Neanderthals who lived in the grotto between 45,000 and 70,000 years ago had contacts with other human groups located as far as 420 kilometers, in the French region of Las Landes, which is the largest distance proven to date…