We often dismiss our extinct cousins as brutish cave dwellers -- and the word Neanderthal is thrown about as a dig at people who have outdated ways of thinking. We are familyThis is the public entrance to the Einhornhöhle cave, the Unicorn cave in English, in the Harz Mountains, Germany, where the tiny piece of engraved bone was found. A tiny, engraved bone is changing how we think about Neanderthals, the heavily built Stone Age hominins who disappeared about 40,000 years ago. once thought unique to Homo sapiens. Found in Einhornhöhle (or Unicorn) cave in northern Germany, the decorated deer phalanx, or toe bone, features a geometric pattern .

Source: CNN July 10, 2021 15:00 UTC