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Which tools were used by Neanderthal man?

Neanderthals used hide scrapers, points, backed knives, stick sharpeners, tiny saws, and borers. These tools may have been used for killing, cutting, and skinning prey, and for making wooden tools and clothing.

Neanderthals crafted their tools from flakes of fine-grained, glassy stones like flint and obsidian. Neanderthal tools found at LeMoustier, France, are believed to be about 40,000 years old.

Source: Lambert, David. Field Guide to Early Man, p. 144.

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