Experts Say Iconic Prehistoric Hand Stencils Were a Neandertal Innovation, May Have Used It for “Ritual or Cultic” Purposes A ...
Nine-year-old Ben from West Sussex, England reportedly made an extraordinary discovery on a random beach day. This happened ...
Ben Witten found an unusual rock on an English beach when he was 6. It turned out to be an exceedingly rare hand ax made by Neanderthals, tens of thousands of years ago.
It’s not so uncommon for a 6-year-old boy on a trip to the beach to become enamored with a uniquely shaped rock. It’s just a ...
But upon closer inspection, it turned out to be nothing short of the real thing: a rare Neanderthal axe from a significant moment in the hominin’s history, making it the second ever found in Sussex.