Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art?

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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Re:Over hyped

[Anonymous Coward]

For all the "out of Africa" theory, it's interesting to note that all the places that Neanderthals have occupied had real civilizations and the one place modern humans supposedly came from really had none worth mentioning.

Add to that the fact that all human races have neanderthal genes except for Africans.

Now talk to me again about your pompous assertion that neanderthals only "aped" us.