article_snippet.sent: How Neanderthals met Neanderthals remains a long standing mystery for historians.
article_snippet.sent: One theory is that early modern humans 'bullied' Neanderthals Neanderthal cousins to the point of extinction because Neanderthals had better tools to survive.
article_snippet.sent: But a new study of ancient stone tools contradicts Contradicts theory that human hunting led to the demise of Neanderthals by suggesting human weapons were no better than those created by Neanderthals.
article_snippet.sent: Japanese researchers found the human tools (pictured) were no more effective than Neanderthal-created tools of the same era .
article_snippet.sent: Researchers say the discovery means we may need to rethink the reasons humans survived Neanderthals - and that we may not have behaved as differently as we thought.
article_snippet.sent: But the new study by Nagoya University and the University of Tokyo in Japan argues Neanderthals were just as well-equipped as Neanderthals human counterparts. '
article_snippet.sent: We're not so special, I don't think We survived Neanderthals simply because of technological competence,' said Dr Seiji Kadowaki, first author of the study from Nagoya University, Japan.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals (reconstruction right) may not have been as dim-witted as first believe, claims the new study by Nagoya University and the University of Tokyo in Japan .
article_snippet.sent: Researchers are often depicted as dim-witted evolutionary losers, but Neanderthals were not driven to extinction by Researchers lack of brains..
article_snippet.sent: An analysis of archaeological evidence dating back 200,000 years strips away some of the myths surrounding Neanderthals and reveals some of the myths surrounding Neanderthals were more advanced and sophisticated than has widely been thought.
article_snippet.sent: Many researchers believe the differences between the two human species are not enough on Many researchers own to account for the demise of the Neanderthals.
highlights_snippet.sent: Japanese researchers were no more effective than Neanderthal-created tools of same era .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Suggests humans and Neanderthals may not have behaved that differently .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Contradicts theory that human hunting led to the demise of Neanderthals .