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Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art?

Posted by timothy on from the everyone's-a-critic dept.

sciencehabit writes "Dating experts working in Spain, using a technique relatively new to archaeology, have pushed dates for the earliest cave art back some 4000 years to at least 41,000 years ago, raising the possibility that the artists were Neandertals rather than modern humans. And a few researchers say that the study argues for the slow development of artistic skill over tens of thousands of years — not a swift acquisition of talent, as some had argued."

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  1. Re:mdash by tqk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And yet they can.

    Yet they can.

    FTFY. Just because they can, doesn't mean they should. What does that spurious "And" add to the meaning of that sentence? Nothing.

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