New Scientist has a short story synthesizing all the accumulating data that Neandertals weren't that primitive, and that the inflection point of cultural creativity 40-50 K BP was the culmination of a gradual process.
Neandertals were human?
Explore how Neandertals' cultural creativity was a gradual process, revealing they weren't as primitive as once thought.
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