Neandertal cave art
It has been suggested that Neandertals, as well as modern humans, may have painted caves. Hoffmann et al.
used uranium-thorium dating of carbonate crusts to show that cave
paintings from three different sites in Spain must be older than 64,000
years. These paintings are the oldest dated cave paintings in the world.
Importantly, they predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe by at
least 20,000 years, which suggests that they must be of Neandertal
origin. The cave art comprises mainly red and black paintings and
includes representations of various animals, linear signs, geometric
shapes, hand stencils, and handprints. Thus, Neandertals possessed a
much richer symbolic behavior than previously assumed.
Source : sciencemag
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