American, British and Dutch researchers have found that Neanderthals had five amazing innate talents in several fields.
Scientists from the University of Washington announced last week that they had investigated the remains of 23 primitive ears, and found that about half of them had bone growth suggesting that food search in water was a prominent part of their lifestyle.
This bony increase, known as the external auditory urn, or "surfer's ear", is present today for surfers who spend time in wet and cold conditions, meaning that primitive man was a swimmer.
The second talent was that they were athletic runners. Previously they thought they were racing in endurance and now thought they would have preferred racing for greater strength and not just ran endurance, according to Dr. John Stewart of Bournemouth University who drew this conclusion from new evidence that they They colonized forests instead of barren plains, and from genetic analyzes that identified a high percentage of genetic variants found in contemporary athletics.
The third talent was that they were artists. The oldest cave paintings in the world were found last year in Spain, dating back to 65 thousand years, twenty thousand years before the arrival of modern man to Europe.
These works of art, including animal images and geometric references, are attributed to Neanderthals who were the only people on the continent at the time.
The fourth talent was that they were making jewelry. The eagle claws found at a Neanderthal site in Croatia showed signs of wearing patterns and patterns suggesting that they were worn as jewelery, and in other locations beads, shells and feathers were found as if they were arranged in necklaces, as David pointed out. Fryer of the University of Kansas points out that this is clear evidence that Neanderthals created and wore personal decorations without apparent practical use.
The fifth talent was that they were burning fire. Scientists at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands found dozens of granite axes with small scratches on their flat sides, suggesting that they were used to start the fire when they hit the pyrite.