article_snippet.sent: Writing in the journal Antiquity, Dr Krief and her colleagues said: 'Data on Neanderthal behaviour suggest that Neanderthal behaviour subsistence and technological strategies were complex.'
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals have long been portrayed as a rather primitive form of human that died out as Neanderthals were unable to compete with the more sophisticated modern humans that arrived in Europe and Asia from Africa.
article_snippet.sent: New archaeological discoveries are expanding our knowledge of how Neanderthals lived in ways that could not have been imagined when Neanderthals fossilised remains, like the skeleton above, were first found by archaeologists .
article_snippet.sent: Other recent discoveries are starting to reveal what culinary creatures the Neanderthals were.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Simon Underdown, an anthropologist at Oxford Brookes University, said: 'This paper reminds Dr Simon Underdown, an anthropologist at Oxford Brookes University that the Neanderthals were complicated and sophisticated humans. '
article_snippet.sent: The comparison with chimps must be used carefully as The comparison with chimps are a very different animal but the complex array of behaviours seen in world chimps gives us even more to marvel at when us think about what the Neanderthals were capable of.'
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals first emerged around 280,000 years ago, spreading to inhabit much of Europe and parts of Asia, but Neanderthals eventually died out 40,000 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: The reason for Neanderthals demise was often put down to being a more primative species of human that was unable to compete against the more sophisticated Homo sapiens.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals were depicted as thuggish cavemen that scraped an existence on the cold lands of ice age Europe.
article_snippet.sent: However, a series of discoveries are now putting Neanderthals into a new light.
article_snippet.sent: DNA analysis has also shown that Neanderthals carried the same genes that are thought to have enabled modern humans to speak.
article_snippet.sent: The traditional image of Neanderthals as primitive creatures like above is no longer holding up to evidence .
highlights_snippet.sent: so researchers believe Neanderthals also did the same .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The findings transform the view of Neanderthals as unsophisticated brutes .