In the final episode of the Secrets of the Stone Age - The Human Story, Richard Rudgley takes a look at the Middle Palaeolithic, from 200,000 to 38,000 years
ago, and a close examination of the Neanderthal, a highly intelligent creature
which existed alongside our ancestors just 30,000 years ago, give or take.
Neanderthal has been hugely misrepresented as a dumb creature, but they made
sophisticated tools - sometimes better than our own - buried their dead, made
necklaces and other ornaments and even interbred with human beings.
