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Neanderthals made leather-working tools like those in use today

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Archaic humans may have invented bone implements still used to make expensive handbags.

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  1. Soressi, M. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302730110 (2013).

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Callaway, E. Neanderthals made leather-working tools like those in use today. Nature (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.13542

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