Science | History

Fire starters, builders: meet the Neanderthals

Mysterious find: Most of the 400 broken stalagmites had been arranged into two rings. © PA

Is our species special? Some people think we are completely different to animals. But there were once other types of humans, and they were more cleverer than we realised. 

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