1.   At caves in Israel anthropologists have also found Neanderthal bones with stone tools like those of the more modern sapiens.

2.   Fragments of Neanderthal bones, scattered around three hearths in a fire-scarred cave, reveal striking cut marks that could have been made only by sharp flints.

3.   Many anthropologists had tried to extract DNA from Neanderthal bones without success.

4.   So if the deer bones were leftovers from a meal, the scientists said, then the Neanderthal bones must be as well.

5.   The Neanderthal bones at Moula-Guercy are not buried but are scattered across the site and mixed with deer bones.

6.   Whether some Neanderthals ate their own kind has been a controversy since the turn of the century, when Neanderthal bones bearing suspicious scars were discovered in Croatia.