Making a Neanderthal flint stone tool | Natural History Museum

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[alphacrow]

It is just amazing how the Neanderthals would use this process to make tools. So cool!!!!

[Winner]

Every time someone says stone age people were primitive, idiotic brutes, I challenge them to make a stone tool at least as good as they could produce. Then they usually shut up.

[mpainesyd]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams has advice for evolving lifeforms: "...the secret is to bang the rocks together guys."

[patrickbush]

Do you think neanderthals could have watched this video? They had to learn that technique somewhere don't you think?

[OrionoftheStar]

Is anyone going to comment on how he's basically smashing the rock on his leg in the same spot over and over again?

[stephent]

The lighting/shadow is really bad in this video. I don’t know how the craftsman could see what he was doing - I can’t!😮

[richardl.currier]

Modern flintknappers are very poor in reproducing Neanderthalian Levallois flakes. They must have used a different method, I am sure of it.