The dot seemed like evidence of a Neanderthal using their imagination to project a symbol onto an object—creating art, if you will—thereby contradicting the conventional belief that modern ...

The story they were trying to tell is unknown, but this discovery marks the oldest Neanderthal art that humanity has ever discovered. A new study on the cave drawings has been published in PLOS ...

An 8-inch rock found at an archaeological site in central Spain is the latest indication that Neanderthals were making art long before modern humans, further eroding stereotypes of the extinct ...

Scientists in Spain say they have discovered the oldest full human fingerprint after unearthing a rock which they say resembles a human face and suggests Neanderthals could make art. A Neanderthal ...

Researchers in Spain say they have found evidence that Neanderthals were capable of creating art — challenging the idea that art began with the modern humans who succeeded them. The canvas was a ...

Neanderthals may have made art just like modern humans do, researchers in Spain have said. The findings, published in the Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences journal, challenge existing ...

According to a new study in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, a team of researchers may have discovered one of the oldest art objects adorned with a fingerprint from across Europe. The ...

One day around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man in what is now central Spain came across a large granite pebble whose pleasing contours and indentations snagged his eye. Something in the shape of ...

The discovery is a further challenge to the idea that Neanderthals were generally not capable of symbolic art. But some experts told Live Science they are not convinced that the dot is symbolic.