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Archaeologists in Italy just lately unearthed the stays of no less than 9 Neanderthals in Guattari Cave, close to the Tyrrhenian Sea about 100 km southeast of Rome. Whereas excavating a beforehand unexplored part of the cave, archaeologists from the Archaeological Superintendency of Latina and the College of Tor Vergata just lately unearthed damaged skulls, jawbones, enamel, and items of a number of different bones, which they are saying signify no less than 9 Neanderthals. That brings the cave’s complete to no less than 10; anthropologist Alberto Carlo Blanc discovered a Neanderthal cranium in one other chamber in 1939.
Italy was a really totally different place 60,000 years in the past. Hyenas, together with different Pleistocene carnivores, stalked rhinoceroses, wild horses (an extinct wild bovine referred to as aurochs), and other people.
“Neanderthals have been prey for these animals. Hyenas hunted them, particularly essentially the most weak, like sick or aged people,” Tor Vergata College archaeologist Mario Rolfo advised The Guardian. The archaeologists discovered the Neanderthal stays mingled with the bones of rhinos, large deer, wild horses, and different hyenas. Predators and scavengers have a tendency to go away behind totally different components of the skeleton than, say, flowing water or easy burial—and tooth marks are normally a useless giveaway.
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