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Flint and clay-ironstone resharpening flakes, Ash Tree Cave, Derbyshire.
Even tiny objects show #Neanderthals moving around their land.
These two artefacts were waste from tool edge maintenance (scrapers or bifaces), but don't match anything in the cave.
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Flint and clay-ironstone resharpening flakes, Ash Tree Cave, Derbyshire.
Even tiny objects show #Neanderthals moving around their land.
These two artefacts were waste from tool edge maintenance (scrapers or bifaces), but don't match anything in the cave.
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But a few kms from Ash Tree Cave is @CreswellCrags, where scrapers & bifaces made of these stones were found in Church Hole and Robin Hood Cave.
We can't know if they were directly connected, but #Neanderthals were using the caves at Creswell & Ash Tree differently.
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We can't know if they were directly connected, but #Neanderthals were using the caves at Creswell & Ash Tree differently.
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Clay-ironstone is a local, quite soft stone, probably used casually.
Flint however is trickier; there are occasional glacial cobbles of northern-type flint, but southern-type flint – which the scraper looks like – was probably brought into the region by #Neanderthals.
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Flint however is trickier; there are occasional glacial cobbles of northern-type flint, but southern-type flint – which the scraper looks like – was probably brought into the region by #Neanderthals.
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