However, at present, all of the Neanderthal evidence is non-figurative—they have no depictions of animals, including humans. This latter form of art was perhaps exclusive to Homo sapiens. Instead, the ...

The story of humanity’s past has been told through the tools and traces left behind. From time to time, a discovery surfaces that upends what we thought we knew. One such revelation has come from a ...

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Researchers in Spain say they have found evidence that Neanderthals were capable of creating art — challenging the idea that art began with the modern humans who succeeded them. The canvas was a ...

(CNN) — Researchers in central Spain say they may have uncovered one of the most ancient symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint on record in Europe, dating back tens of thousands of years.

One day around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man in what is now central Spain came across a large granite pebble whose pleasing contours and indentations snagged his eye. Something in the shape of ...

Stalagmites in the Sala de las Estrellas in the Spanish cave of Ardales (Malaga, Andalusia) showing traces of red pigment. (photos by Joao Zilhao; courtesy Francesco d’Errico) In the traditional ...

The French paleoanthropologist discusses his book ‘The Last Neanderthal,’ and provides clues about his latest discovery: ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 ...