Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, suggest these predecessors to modern humans had a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought.
I thought it was known that their intelligence was comparable to a modern human’s.
Debated, but the arguments against it sound an awful lot like phrenology, and they keep finding evidence of higher order thinking like this, soooo