What kind of tools did neanderthals use?

Question

ive heard of some but i would like to know some unique kinds

Answer 1

Neanderthals used hide scrapers, points, backed knives, stick sharpeners, tiny saws, and borers. These tools may have been used for killing, cutting, and skinning prey, and for making wooden tools and clothing.  Neanderthals crafted their tools from flakes of fine-grained, glassy stones like flint and obsidian.

Answer 2

The neanderthal created several different kinds of tools, starting with fire hardened wooden spears & progressing to wood & leather wrapped knives.

From Wiki:

"The characteristic style of stone tools in the Middle Paleolithic is called the Mousterian culture, after a prominent archaeological site where the tools were first found. The Mousterian culture is typified by the wide use of the Levallois technique. Mousterian tools were often produced using soft hammer percussion, with hammers made of materials like bones, antlers, and wood, rather than hard hammer percussion, using stone hammers. Near the end of the time of the Neanderthals, they created the Châtelperronian tool style, considered more advanced than that of the Mousterian. They either invented the Châtelperronian themselves or borrowed elements from the incoming modern humans who are thought to have created the Aurignacian."

They made a stone knife backed by wooden & leather wrapped handles. In addition they made awls & several types of jewelry ... it appears as if they made a flute type musical instrument from bone.

http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm

http://www.ukom.gov.si/eng/slovenia/back...

Answer 3

Don't forget fire.

Answer 4

The Neandertals used a limited tool kit to survive. The developed the Mousterian system to chip stone and make their axes, scrapers, and points. The technique involved preparing a core in a shape much like a small loaf of bread. One would then knock off the top producing a flak that could be shaped into a tool. Most often the tool was a hand axe useful for digging and chopping, Scrappers and projectile points were also used. This system required a large amount of stone for each tool. Neolithic tools made by modern humans used a blade technology which produce much more cutting edges from the same amount of stone. Spears were sticks hardened in fire. The bow and atlatal were unknown Throughout their known existence, they did not change their tool styles. Almost 3/4 of the game remains found at Neandertal sites is that if reindeer. Most Neandertal remains show injuries such as broken bones and dislocations. It has been suggested that their hunting methods exposed them to great danger and involved close contact with their prey. It has been suggested that Neandertals hunted only specific animals rather then a broad range as did Early Modern Humans.(EMH)

The only changes to their tools occurred where there's also evidence of interaction with EMHs. It seems there was some effort made to copy the newcomers tools.