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68,000-Year-Old Hand Art Found In Indonesia, Rewriting Human History
This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.
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Researchers Discover 24,000-Year-Old Palaeolithic Cave Art In Spain
The archaeologists found the artwork in a 1,600-foot-deep cave known as "Cova Dones".
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World's Oldest Cave Art Crafted By Neanderthals, Not Humans: Study
The world's oldest known cave paintings were created by Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, showing that our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes as previously believed, a study has found.
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Nasty, Brutish and Artsy? Neanderthal Hashtag Engraving Found
Belying their reputation as the dumb cousins of early modern humans, Neanderthals created cave art, an activity regarded as a major cognitive step in the evolution of humankind, scientists reported on Monday in a paper describing the first discovery of artwork by this extinct species.
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68,000-Year-Old Hand Art Found In Indonesia, Rewriting Human History
This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.
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Researchers Discover 24,000-Year-Old Palaeolithic Cave Art In Spain
The archaeologists found the artwork in a 1,600-foot-deep cave known as "Cova Dones".
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World's Oldest Cave Art Crafted By Neanderthals, Not Humans: Study
The world's oldest known cave paintings were created by Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, showing that our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes as previously believed, a study has found.
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Nasty, Brutish and Artsy? Neanderthal Hashtag Engraving Found
Belying their reputation as the dumb cousins of early modern humans, Neanderthals created cave art, an activity regarded as a major cognitive step in the evolution of humankind, scientists reported on Monday in a paper describing the first discovery of artwork by this extinct species.
