19th Century Neanderthals

With the advance of technology over the 19th century, anthropologists’ have been able to use new techniques to further challenge past assumptions made about the Neanderthals. Using more advanced excavation methods, anthropologists were able to gather stratigraphic evidence of two separate killings of large animal herds in La Cotte de St. Brelade. The sites that the animal remains were found suggest that the Neanderthals were using the landscape, such as deep ravines and rocky barriers, to entrap their prey. These findings indicate that Neanderthals had the ability to long-range plan, a skill that Neanderthals were not believed to possess (Villa and Soriano 2010: 3). Another discovery using new technology that changed the modern humans view