article_snippet: The new findings suggest that the talons may have had a symbolic purpose - something that some anthropologists have argued Neanderthals did not possess or copied off modern humans.
article_snippet: Along with colleagues at the Croatian Natural History Museum, Dr Frayer said: 'the talons provide multiple new lines of evidence for Neanderthals’ abilities and cultural sophistication. '
article_snippet: the talons are the earliest evidence for jewellery in the European fossil record and demonstrate that Neanderthals possessed a symbolic culture long before more modern human forms arrived in Europe.
article_snippet: Some have argued that Neandertals lacked symbolic ability or copied this behavior from modern humans. '
article_snippet: The new discovery now suggests that Neatherthals were also capable to creating jewellery, other sophisticated 'art', and may even have had rudimentary religion.
article_snippet: Previously scientists have found evidence that Neanderthals may have created engravings on rocks in Gibraltar while modified feathers and shells have also been found alongside Neanderthals remains.
article_snippet: Researchers believe Neanderthals used Researchers mouths as a third hand for tasks such as preparing the furs or chopping meat.
article_snippet: the biggest collection of ancient human fossils reveals how Neanderthals developed the biggest collection of ancient human fossils distinctive teeth before the biggest collection of ancient human fossils brains, using the biggest collection of ancient human fossils as a third hand for holding objects.
article_snippet: This suggests Neanderthals used Neanderthals jaws in a particular way for chewing as well as for holding objects.
article_snippet: Dr Simon Underdown, an anthropologist at Oxford Brookes University, said the discovery of the talons shed new light on Neanderthal intelligence.
article_snippet: Dr Simon Underdown, an anthropologist at Oxford Brookes University said: 'This research gives us two important bits of information about Neanderthals and their intelligence levels. '
article_snippet: Stone tools discovered at sites Stone tools inhabited suggest Stone tools were skilled tool makers with adept hand eye coordination.
article_snippet: A 60,000-year-old multi-purpose bone tool unearthed in France also suggests Neanderthals understood how to use bones to make useful devices .
article_snippet: 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: Neanderthals discovered a 26 feet wide building created 44,000 years ago from mammoth bones.
article_snippet: Many of mammoth bones had also been decorated carvings and ochre pigments.
article_snippet: Cross-hatched engravings found inside Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar are also thought to be the first known examples of Neanderthal rock art.
highlights_snippet: Anthropologists say it suggests Neanderthals had used Anthropologists for a symbolic purpose .
  