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“The last Neanderthals mysteriously died out around 40,000 years ago, just a few thousand years after humans arrived”
His discovery of a cluster of bodies with one surrounded by clumps of ancient pollen led him to controversially argue that this was evidence of funerary rituals with the dead placed on a bed of flowers. “We wanted to try and date these burials… to use the site to contribute to the big debate about why the Neanderthals died out, and then we started finding these bits,” he said.
But Hunt said there was still evidence —such as the remains of a partially paralyzed Neanderthal found by Solecki—that the species were more empathetic than previously thought. Emma Pomeroy, the Cambridge palaeo-anthropologist who uncovered Shanidar Z, said finding her skull and upper body had been both “exciting” and “terrifying”.
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