When humans hooked up with Neanderthals, we could have wooed them with music and fancy jewellery. The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the [ … ]
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Neanderthal ‘art’ 40,000 years old found in Gibraltar cave
Neanderthals, long assumed to be simple, early forms of human beings, whose looks characterise them as brutish creatures, have shown signs of being more considered and creative than the species [ … ]
Do Feathers Reveal Neanderthal Brainpower
An interesting article by Erin Wayman for Smithonian, pub. September 24, 2012: Neanderthals have a reputation for being dumb brutes. While modern humans (Homo sapiens) were painting cave murals, sculpting [ … ]
European Stone Age Cave Art Gets Older
Red disks, hand stencils and club-shaped drawings lining the walls of several Stone Age caves in Spain were painted so long ago that Neanderthals might have been their makers, say [ … ]