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Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds

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Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
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Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals and the modern humans who moved in later left behind surprisingly similar traces of their daily lives — evidence that they hunted the same animals, crafted the same stone tools and collected the same type of seashells. The findings, published Monday (July 6) in the journal PNAS, feed into some of the biggest questions in human evolution: How similar were the cultures of Neanderthals

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