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Neanderthals may have enjoyed knitting - busting myth they were 'unintelligent'

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Neanderthals may have unwound from all that hunting and gathering with a spot of knitting around the cave fire. Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the first direct evidence of yarn making.

The 6mm-long cord fragment, found at an archaeological site in Abri du Maras in the south of France. And they think it was made by Neanderthals in the Middle Palaeolithic period 30,000 to 300,000 years ago.

They would have needed basic numeracy skills to create bundles of fibres to make yarn and may have been more advanced than previously thought.

An international team, led by Bruce Hardy, a professor of anthropology at Kenyon College in Ohio, US, analysed the cord fragment which was found twisted in three small bundles wrapped around a

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