The Ongoing Debate Over Neanderthal Language

Did Neanderthals have language? Before trying to answer that, I should admit my bias: I’m team Neanderthal. As an anthropologist who studies our evolutionary cousins, I’ve seen plenty of evidence suggesting Neanderthals were competent, complex, social creatures. In light of their apparent cognitive abilities, I'm inclined to believe they had language.But I can’t prove it, and no one else can, either. To date, there's no evidence that Neanderthals developed writing, so