Neanderthals Used Rhino Teeth as Hammers to Sculpt Stone Tools

Neanderthals used rhino teeth as hammers to sculpt stone tools

A new study has revealed another remarkable aspect of Neanderthal behavior: they not only consumed the animals they hunted but also utilized their remains as tools. An emerging conclusion, science is coming to. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and UNED Madrid investigated Neanderthal sites in Western Europe, particularly a curious accumulation of rhinoceros teeth found in Payre, France. This led to the question: why was there such a l…

Scientists Just Figured Out Why Neanderthals Collected Rhino Teeth

Now that we’ve recently learned Neanderthals may have been just as intelligent as Homo sapiens, it suddenly makes a lot of sense that a new study found they were carrying around sophisticated tool kits, including tools made from rhinoceros teeth. According to research published in the Journal of Human Evolution, Neanderthals in what is now France and Spain hunted rhinos for food roughly 100,000 years ago, and they weren’t carving them up for the…