Now that we’ve recently learned Neanderthals may have been just as intelligent as Homo sapiens, it suddenly makes a lot of sense that a new study found they were carrying around sophisticated tool kits, including tools made from rhinoceros teeth. According to research published in the Journal of Human Evolution , Neanderthals in what is now France and Spain hunted rhinos for food roughly 100,000 years ago, and they weren’t carving them up for their meat alone. They were extracting rhino teeth, particularly the molars, and recycling them into multipurpose tools to be used for shaping stone, processing hide, and manipulating plant fibers. Videos by VICE The researchers examined 281 fossilized rhino teeth found in a Paleolithic cave site, including El Castillo Cave and Pech-de-l’Azé II. A lot of the teeth had grooves, fractures, or scrape marks, or some combination of them, that didn’t come from a rhino’s natural chewing patterns.…