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Neanderthals Made Jewelry 130,000 Years Ago | Here's What Else They Did

Everything you learned about Neanderthals is wrong. The hunched, grunting caveman dragging a club? That image comes from a single arthritic skeleton, misinterpreted in 1911 by a French paleontologist who already knew what he wanted Neanderthals to be. The real Neanderthals made eagle-talon jewelry 130,000 years ago. They buried their dead with care and possibly flowers. They used medicinal plants — natural aspirin and antibiotics — to treat illness. They produced birch bark adhesive through a process so complex that modern researchers struggle to replicate it. Their brains were bigger than ours. They may have painted cave walls 20,000 years before Homo sapiens reached Europe. And most of us carry their DNA right now. This video traces the evidence, the Victorian-era propaganda that buried it, and the recent discoveries forcing science to admit we were wrong about our closest relatives.