Cave Art and Painted Shells Suggest Neanderthals Were Artists, Understood Symbolism (IMAGE)
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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 Feb. 23, 2018 issue of Science, 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. Zilhão
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