Neanderthals in a boat? Not such a far-fetched notion after all
Neanderthals in a boat? Not such a far-fetched notion after all
McMaster University research bolsters theory that our primitive cousins were more sophisticated than previously thought.
By Kate Allen Science and Technology reporter
Tues., Dec. 27, 2016
The first archeologists to find strange stone artifacts on Naxos were French researchers working on the Greek island in 1981.
Naxos, the largest in a cluster known as the Cyclades that dot the Aegean Sea, is rich in the type of archeology many would recognize from classical exhibits in museums: 5,000-year-old, beautifully proportioned white marble figurines; 3,000-year-old, strikingly patterned pottery vessels.
These scrappy pieces of rock looked much, much older.
“The stone tools they were finding on the site looked nothing like the stone tools that had ever been found before on prehistoric sites in the Cycladic Islands,” said Tristan Carter, an archeologist at McMaster University in Hamilton.
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