July
11
/ 2013
Neanderthals were once considered to be subhuman brutes with low intelligence and capable of communicating through little more than a series of grunts. However, research fuelled by a fascination into the plight of the Neanderthals who mysteriously died out some 30,000 years ago, has uncovered a number of findings about the Neanderthals which suggests they were not as ‘subhuman’ as once believed and may have even had a sophisticated form of speech and language. Evidence revealing a certain level of sophistication and cultural practices amongst Neanderthals has included findings demonstrating that they created art, used medicinal plants, and created a comfortable ‘base’ that they would have considered home. Now a paper has emerged, published in the Frontiers in Language Sciences
