Neanderthal Rock Crystals

I find this sort of thing so fascinating and hope we continue exploring this interplay between ancient humans of various species…

Rock crystal scraper: 45,000-year-old Neanderthal tool that shows they had an ‘eye for beauty of form and color’ | Live Science:

A century ago, American archaeologists excavating at a cave site in France unearthed a cache of seven rock crystal tools made by Neanderthals. The discovery was one of the first to prove that Neanderthals were not the unintelligent brutes that many scientists of the time believed they were.