New findings at an old Neanderthal burial ground in France have bolstered the notion that cavemen cared for their elders, researchers said on Monday.

The research is based on excavations around the skeleton of an elderly Neanderthal man who could barely walk and had lost his teeth, and who was painstakingly buried after he died.

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