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In Scayn, the Neanderthals Turned the Lion's Bones Into Tools

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The Neanderthals made tools from the cave lion's dos (Panthera spelaea). This discovery was made in the Scladina Cave, located in Sclayn, Andenne, in an archaeological layer dated about 130,000 years B.C.E. (end of the Middle Pleistocene). Within this layer, Grégory Abrams, postdoctoral archaeologist at the UGent, discovered fragments of a lion's tibia intentionally shaped. These bones were discovered in the Scladina Cave between 1982 and 1986. …
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The Neanderthals made tools from the cave lion's dos (Panthera spelaea). This discovery was made in the Scladina Cave, located in Sclayn, Andenne, in an archaeological layer dated about 130,000 years B.C.E. (end of the Middle Pleistocene). Within this layer, Grégory Abrams, postdoctoral archaeologist at the UGent, discovered fragments of a lion's tibia intentionally shaped. These bones were discovered in the Scladina Cave between 1982 and 1986. …

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DAILY SCIENCE broke the news in on Friday, September 12, 2025.
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