Neanderthals likely made Europe's oldest engravings in a French cave as long as 75,000 years ago, a study suggests.
The oldest-known engravings in Europe, discovered in a French cave sealed up for tens of thousands of years, likely weren't crafted by modern humans but rather Neanderthals, a new study finds.
At the cave of La Roche-Cotard, researchers found eight panels with more than 400 traces of abstract lines and dots. The researchers call these traces"engravings" because they represent deliberate removal of material carried out with a tool or finger."This removal of material is neither accidental nor utilitarian," they wrote in their study, but rather"intentional and meticulous.
The researchers also found no direct link between the numerous stone tools discovered in the cave and the engravings, further supporting the finding that Neanderthals created the engravings with their fingers, just as the researchers did. For the most part, the engravings on the cave wall are lines called"finger flutings," made when someone swiped their fingers flat along the silt-covered wall, the team concluded.
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