BBC World
A 15mm hole in a 75,000-year-old shoulder blade suggests Neanderthals were stabbing each other long before anyone invented farming, or excuses.
Ars Technica
Archaeologists find 597 wooden Neanderthal remains in Spain, proving they were skilled woodworkers - not just spear-chucking brutes - and that we've probably been tossing their tools in the discard pile for decades.
ScienceDaily
Your ancient ancestors probably also turned up their noses at bugs, and it's not just culture - it's 9,000 years of evolution (and Neanderthals were into it).
Ars Technica
Archaeologists confirm Neanderthals used rhino teeth as hammers, because when life gives you extinct megafauna, you make tools.
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