{"id":10590,"date":"2020-04-16T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:10:56","slug":"caveman-make-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/16\/caveman-make-string\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveman Make String"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/neanderthals-string-discovery-1830864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archaeologists Just Discovered That Neanderthals Made String 50,000 Years Ago, Suggesting They Were Waaay Smarter Than We Thought<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers say that Neanderthals &#8220;really weren&#8217;t very different from us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2020\/04\/09SCI-CORD1-superJumbo-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Modern cordage made of grass fibers. Photo courtesy of Bruce Hardy.\" title=\"Modern cordage made of grass fibers. Photo courtesy of Bruce Hardy.\"\/><figcaption>Modern cordage made of grass fibers. Photo courtesy of Bruce Hardy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Archaeologists have unearthed more evidence that Neanderthals were smarter than we previously believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to newly found materials, our human brethren were making the world\u2019s first string 50,000 years ago. The oldest-known cord fragments prior to this discovery were found in Israel, and were made some 19,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The find comes from&nbsp;an&nbsp;archaeological site called Abri du Maras in southeastern France,&nbsp;where Neanderthals lived between 90,000 and 42,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea that Neanderthals were cognitively inferior to modern humans is becoming increasingly untenable,\u201d researchers say in an article documenting their finds published in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-020-61839-w\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Scientific Reports<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/neanderthals-string-discovery-1830864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Archaeologists Just Discovered That Neanderthals Made String 50,000 Years Ago, Suggesting They Were Waaay Smarter Than We Thought The researchers say that Neanderthals &#8220;really weren&#8217;t very different from us.\u201d Archaeologists have unearthed more evidence that Neanderthals were smarter than we previously believed. According to newly found materials, our human brethren were making the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}