{"id":984,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/archaeologists-make-shock-discovery-about-neanderthal-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","slug":"archaeologists-make-shock-discovery-about-neanderthal-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/archaeologists-make-shock-discovery-about-neanderthal-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists make shock discovery about Neanderthal intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-21 15:03:32<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that Neanderthals were smarter than thought.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers from The Australian National University have been exploring the Abric Pizarro site near the Pyrenees mountains in Spain, which dates back 100,000 to 65,000 years to a period known as MIS 4. <BR><br \/>\nAnimal bones uncovered at the site showed that the cavemen planned meals based on the surrounding environment and developed tools specifically for the killing of large animals like bison.<BR><br \/>\nThe new evidence also shows that Neanderthals killed smaller animals such as rabbits, contrary to the belief that they only hunted larger creatures.<BR><br \/>\nDr Sofia Samper Carro, lead author of the research, said: &#8220;Our surprising findings at Abric Pizarro show how adaptable Neanderthals were.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The animal bones we have recovered indicate that they were successfully exploiting the surrounding fauna, hunting red deer, horses and bison, but also eating freshwater turtles and rabbits, which imply a degree of planning rarely considered for Neanderthals.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-21 15:03:32 Archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that Neanderthals were smarter than thought. Researchers from The Australian National University have been exploring the Abric Pizarro site near the Pyrenees&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}