Tool time in the Stone Age.(research on Spain's Abric Romani rock shelter)(Brief Article) From: Science News | Date: October 16, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Neandertals pursued a variety of toolmaking strategies in their settlements, showing an aptitude often attributed only to modern humans, according to an investigation of Stone Age artifacts in a Spanish rock shelter.

This finding adds to evidence that behaviors long assumed to have originated among modern humans beginning around 40,000 years ago actually appeared much earlier among other Homo species, including Neandertals (SN: 7/3/99, p. 4).

Manuel Vaquero of Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, analyzed the spatial distribution of numerous stone implements ...