Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, suggest these predecessors to modern humans had a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought.
That’s like we used to think early hominids all lived in caves, because that’s where we kept finding remains…
It took way to long to realize that’s just where conditions were best for remains and artifacts to stay preserved.
Most didn’t live in caves, if anything they were more like emergency shelters than every day homes.