A group of Russian, French and Norwegian paleontologists have reported on a 32,000-year-old bunch of stone tools in the Russian high Arctic that look for all the world like they were made by Neanderthals and not humans.
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| Photographs of a large side-scraper from Byzovaya. Tools like this one suggest the site was occupied by Neanderthals some 33,000 years ago. |
According to the new study, a prehistoric tool kit and butchered bones unearthed in Russia’s Ural mountains suggest that Neanderthals may have existed there, till as recently as 33,000 years ago. This is contrary to popular belief that modern ‘humans’ began to replace Neanderthals starting around 75,000 to 50,000 years ago, the study marks the Urals as their last refuge around 33,000 years ago, reports Discovery News.
Source: news.discovery.com
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