The Neanderthals lived in groups of 30 to 50 individuals, they invented many of the tool types that were to be perfected by fully sapient peoples, they had weapons adequate to deal with both the cave lion and cave bear, they used body paint, buried their dead. ... Characteristic of the period were hunting and fishing settlements along rivers and on lake shores, where fish and mollusks were abundant. ...

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