Néanderthaliens: des créateurs d'outils et des maîtres du feu?

Fig. 1. Flint flake from Campitello Quarry (Italy), still enclosed in its adhesive,
produced more than 200,000 y ago (42) (SI Text). Study of such adhesives
(42, 43) showed that Neandertals used fire to synthesize from birch bark
a pitch for hafting stone tools (photograph courtesy of P. P. A. Mazza,
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy). From: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/13/5209.full.pdf+html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120124092742.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314152917.htm

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/13/5209.full.pdf+html