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Tango0118 Jan 2017 3:48 p.m. PST

… into Their Culture, Discovery Suggests.

"The rock was collected more than a century ago from the Krapina Neanderthal site and was just recently analyzed by experts from the Croatian Natural History Museum, the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts and the University of Kansas.

"At the Croatian site of Krapina dated to about 130,000 years ago, among many items, a split limestone rock was excavated by Dragutin Gorjanoviĉ-Kramberger between 1899 and 1905," the researchers said.

"Of more than 1,000 lithic items at Krapina, none resemble this specimen and we propose it was collected and not further processed by the Neanderthals because of its aesthetic attributes."…."
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jwebster Supporting Member of TMP18 Jan 2017 7:20 p.m. PST

So they would have been able to roll dice – clearly the origin of wargaming

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Tango0119 Jan 2017 11:35 a.m. PST

(smile)


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