Three Neanderthal teeth found in a cave in Poland
February 3rd, 2010 - 12:05 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Warsaw, Feb 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Polish scientists announced on Monday that they had made a significant discovery when they found 3 Neanderthal teeth inside a cave in Poland. With this the scientists are keen to find some sort of link to the modern man also. This is the first time that the first bodily remains were discovered in the country, according to Mikolaj Urbanowski, who is an archaeologist with Szczecin University and the project’s lead researcher too.
The teeth were found in the Stajna Cave, which is north of the Carpathian Mountains. Mikolaj Urbanowski said that team also found a hammer made of reindeer antler and bones of cave bears with cut marks, which imply that the Neanderthals ate them. He said that they also unearthed some “cave bears which were big, dangerous animals and this supports the view the Neanderthals were really efficient hunters,” Urbanowski said. “How they treated their dead is crucial to understanding how human-like they were. But he emphasized that much more research would be necessary to prove that hypothesis.”
The team is of the opinion that the placement of the teeth with the flint tools, says that this site was some sort of a primitive burial site. And if it were really a burial site, then it would imply that the Neanderthals believed in an afterlife.
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