Neanderthals Culture

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Neanderthals Culture Neanderthals cultures share several similarities in traditions and belief of today’s cultures such as burial ceremony, created tools, artistic accomplishments, representational or symbolic behaviors, and clothing, most specially their aptitudes and capabilities of speech.
Some site of family graves were found—much more like specific area for grave plots, and around the grave were indication of flower pollens which may perhaps means they buried their dead family member with flowers, in addition to, food, and some tools as part of their burial ceremony, which may possibly symbolizes a perception of a life after death. If earlier in time Homo erectus created hand axes tools, Neanderthals created tools that were more creative

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