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Neanderthal 'artwork' found in cave
Topic Started: Sep 1 2014, 10:33 PM (299 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28967746

Mounting evidence suggests Neanderthals were not the brutes they were characterised as decades ago.

But art, a high expression of abstract thought, was long considered to be the exclusive preserve of our own species.

The scattered candidates for artistic expression by Neanderthals have not met with universal acceptance.

However, the geometric pattern identified in Gibraltar, on the southern tip of Europe, was uncovered beneath undisturbed sediments that have also yielded Neanderthal tools.

Details of the discovery by an international team of researchers has been published in the journal PNAS.



Interesting. I wonder what it might have represented, or what it would have looked like when it was new?
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