From San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Paleoanthropology Society and Society for American Archaeology meeting
More than 50 years ago, Henri Delporte excavated a French cave known as Grotte des Fées at Châtelperron. He unearthed many large stone tools characteristic of Neandertals as well as a surprise: small, sharpened points seemingly made by the species toward the end of its evolutionary run.
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