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There has been at least one find of a needle that is presumed to be of Denisovan origin. If the Denisovans already had needles, it is very likely that the Neand
by adrian_b 3y ago
There has been at least one find of a needle that is presumed to be of Denisovan origin. If the Denisovans already had needles, it is very likely that the Neanderthals also had them.
In general the needles are the oldest evidence for the existence of clothes in all human groups, because the clothes themselves are much more perishable.
I have never heard of any evidence for animal domestication by Neanderthals.
If they had any domestic animals, that would have been possible only for a single species, i.e. dogs. For all the other domestic animals all the evidence is consistent with a domestication only during Neolithic, i.e. during the last ten thousand years.
Moreover, except for dogs they would not have had with what to feed domestic animals. At most in rare cases some child could have raised a small pet, but it is very unlikely that they normally had such food surplus to afford to share it with a pet that did not provide any useful service.
- jgilias 3y agoSewing technology is something that preserves quite well in the fossil record though. Maybe some Neanderthal group somewhere had a needle, but we really don’t have any evidence for any sort of widespread use of that tech, as we later find in Homo Sapiens sites. Sure, maybe they just did something else. I think people have proposed them having used birch tar as an adhesive that could be used to craft clothing. Or, maybe, you know, they didn’t need to do that in the first place.