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“I think the big change would be the climate,” said Naomi Chazan, a liberal activist, scholar and former lawmaker from the Meretz party.

Police asked anyone with information to contact Detective Chazan of the Clarkstown Detective Bureau at 845-639-5845.

“We should never underestimate the ingenuity of Neanderthals,” Chazan said, “but that does not mean they were just like modern humans.”

It was possible that certain Neanderthal groups “might have discovered that striking flint could light a fire,” said University of Toronto anthropologist Michael Chazan, who was not a part of this research.

But the study, which Chazan described as “thorough,” cannot prove that Neanderthals actually used flint to light fires — it could only put it in the realm of possibility.