Cave Art and Painted Shells Suggest Neanderthals Were Artists, Understood Symbolism (IMAGE)

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Cave Art and Painted Shells Suggest Neanderthals Were Artists, Understood Symbolism

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Perforated shells found in sediments in Cueva de los Aviones and date to between 115,000 and 120,000 years. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 23 February 2018 issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.L. Hoffmann at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art."

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J. Zilh&atilde;o

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