WHO AND WHAT WERE THE NEANDERTHALS?

1. What types of tools did the Neanderthals use? Where do these tools fit into the tools you were shown in class?

2. What was the average age of the Neanderthal? What is the possible explantion?

3. How did they hunt?

4. What is "planning depth" and did the Neanderthals have it? What evidence suggests that they did or did not?

5. Did the Neanderthals migrate for food?

6. Did Neanderthals cook their food?

7. What is the evidence that Neanderthal cared for their ill?

8. What is the importance of the burial of the dead?

9. Give two examples of Neanderthal art.

10. What was the physical difference between Neanderthal and modern man?

11. What are three theories on the disappearance of the Neanderthal?