A unique perforated bone was found in the Divje Babe cave in Slovenia, in the middle of a palaeolithic layer of earth, near the remains of a Neanderthal fire place, stone and bone tools.
Neandertals at a site in Croatia exhibited a range of behaviors traditionally assumed to be unique to modern humans, and they developed these behaviors independently, tens of thousands of years before modern humans arrived in this region.
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