Wooden tools, from broken spears to domestic implements, indicate that early hominins hunted horses 300,000 years ago at Germany’s Schoningen site and stayed long enough to establish a campsite or village. Researchers write in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the tools point to cognitive abilities that allowed the hominins, likely early Neanderthals, to plan and execute complex carvings.
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