The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France (IMAGE)

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The earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France

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Examples of engravings discovered in the Roche-Cotard cave (Indre et Loire - France). On the left, the "circular panel" (ogive-shaped tracings) and on the right the "wavy panel" (two contiguous tracings forming sinuous lines).

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Jean-Claude Marquet, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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