Neanderthals About Town.

PhysOrg.com puts on the Ritz with a new discovery about the sophisticated Neanderthals of Great Britain:

“The tools we’ve found at the site are technologically advanced and potentially older than tools in Britain belonging to our own species, Homo sapiens,” says Dr Matthew Pope of Archaeology South East based at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. “It’s exciting to think that there’s a real possibility these were left by some of the last Neanderthal hunting groups to occupy northern Europe. The impression they give is of a population in complete command of both landscape and natural raw materials with a flourishing technology – not a people on the edge of extinction.”

We know they had bigger brains than us. Did they have cuff links and snuffboxes, too?