木制工具宝库揭示尼安德特人的家庭生活

Home decorating isn’t unique to Homo sapiens. More than 40,000 years ago, bands of Neanderthals turned a spacious rock shelter in the mountains of Spain into a cozy home, fashioning wood into tools and windbreaks and burning it for heat and light. That picture comes from a first-of-its-kind trove of Neanderthal wooden artifacts from a domestic space, found at a cliffside site called Abric Romaní, 50 kilometers west of Barcelona. “We have so little evidence of how they were living day to day,” says University of Reading archaeologist Annemieke Milks, who was not part of the research team. “Now we can start to imagine the spaces they were living in.” …