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World's Oldest Cave Art Found—Made by Neanderthals? |
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In El Castillo cave, hand stencils join a red disk (not pictured) that may be Earth's oldest cave art.
Photograph courtesy Pedro Saura via Science/AAAS
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Article from National Geographic News by Ker Than
Prehistoric dots and crimson hand stencils on Spanish cave walls are now the world's oldest known cave art, according to new dating results—perhaps the best evidence yet that Neanderthals were Earth's first cave painters.
If that's the case, the discovery narrows the cultural distance between us and Neanderthals—and fuels the argument, at least for one scientist, that the heavy-browed humans were ngot a separate species but only another race.
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