The Evolution of Man

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010...thropology  
  
This meant, says Fagan, that we learned to use local materials – antler, bone and ivory – in ways Neanderthals simply could not imagine. In one case, this resulted in "one of the most revolutionary inventions in history: the eyed needle, fashioned from a sliver of bone or ivory," he adds. While Neanderthals shivered in rags in winter, humans used vegetable fibres and needles – created by using stone awls – to make close-fitting, layered clothing and parkas: the survival of the snuggest, in short. 
 
*In my own words - IMO - Neanderthals were much better adapted physically to the frozen world of Ice Age Europe that Cro-magnon man. He had no knowledge of sewing hides together. If a modern man was to try to live outdoors in Alaska or Siberia today with no actual clothing but merely by having animal hides draped over him like a blanket, he would not last a Winter. For this reason, I believe that Neanderthals were very fat and very hairy; perhaps even fur. This is not so far fetched; they were not a different race but a different species. Compare an Indian elephant with a woolly mammoth; same comparison. Neanderthal probably did drape animal hides over themselves, but they had less real need of clothing than Homo sapien. Reply