(Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in the world have been found on the walls of a cave in Central France, researchers said on ...

The red dot style is found throughout ancient cave art of Spain, and while most of it is undated, the picture is becoming clearer with this current finding that the Neanderthals of Spain were ...

Drawing on Solecki’s research, writer Jean Auel mixed fiction and archaeology in her novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear, a 1980 bestseller that humanized, if not glamorized, Neanderthals.

Or that competition with Neanderthals, present in Europe ... spiritual beliefs drove the very first art. He cites Rhino Cave in Botswana, where archaeologists have found that 65,000 to 70,000 ...