Neanderthals Built Homes out of Mammoth Bones

A discovery in Moldova paints a picture of a more sophisticated Neanderthal.

The discovery of the remains of a large, 44,000-year-old house made out of mammoth bones suggests that Neanderthals were more technologically and sociologically advanced than previously thought. The structure was discovered in the eastern European country of Moldova, near a site that archaeologists had first uncovered in 1984. The discovery is the first to suggest that Neanderthals lived in homes they built and not just in naturally occurring locations, such as caves. The house, which was 26 feet across at its widest point, was built from 116 woolly mammoth bones. The home builds on recent research that suggests Neanderthals had also developed music, a spoken language, and sophisticated art, and that they had interbred with humans before going extinct, leading observers to question whether the age-old stereotype of cave-dwelling, unintelligent Neanderthals is at all true.

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