article_snippet.sent: Animal bones found at sites known to have been inhabited by Neanderthals are 90 per cent free of gnaw marks.
article_snippet.sent: However, recent discoveries have shown that recent discoveries may actually have had a complex culture - capable of making stone tools and even jewellery.
article_snippet.sent: Three years ago researchers at the University of Barcelona examined ten teeth from the remains of five Neanderthals found in El Sidron, northern Spain.
article_snippet.sent: Stone tools discovered at sites Stone tools inhabited suggest Stone tools were skilled tool makers with adept hand eye coordination.
article_snippet.sent: A 60,000-year-old multi-purpose bone tool unearthed in France also suggests the Neanderthals understood how to use bones to make useful devices .
article_snippet.sent: A recent discovery by researchers at the Muséum National d'Histories Naturelle in Paris suggests that Neanderthals may have built homes using the materials Neanderthals found around Neanderthals.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals discovered a 26 feet wide building created 44,000 years ago from mammoth bones.
article_snippet.sent: Cross-hatched engravings found inside Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar are also thought to be the first known examples of Neanderthal rock art.
article_snippet.sent: Eight talons found at a 130,000 year old Neanderthal site in Krapina in Croatia are also thought to be the world's first jewellery, and may have been worn as a necklace.