Them Bone, Them Bones, Them Dry Bones...
May. 15th, 2013 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerI just watched a matched pair of amazing _Nova_ episodes on Neanderthals. The second one was largely about a deposit of Neanderthal fossils and tools found in a cave in El Sidrón, Spain. The remains were all deposited in a single layer in one flood event. They know this from several clues.
One of those clues was discovered when someone cataloging stone tools, waste flakes and the remains of a core stone realized some of them fit together. He was able to reassemble most of the original stone, from forty-nine thousand years ago.
The tools were at most very slightly used, which helped with the fitting.
One of those clues was discovered when someone cataloging stone tools, waste flakes and the remains of a core stone realized some of them fit together. He was able to reassemble most of the original stone, from forty-nine thousand years ago.
The tools were at most very slightly used, which helped with the fitting.
