Newly Discovered Engraving May Revise Picture of Neanderthal Intelligence - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news...
Sep 5, 2014
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"An engraving carved into dolomite stone more than 39,000 years old in a seaside Gibraltar cave suggests that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic thinking—once thought unique to modern humans."
- Ken Morley
"We can definitely say it is more than 39,000 years old, a time when there were no modern humans near Gibraltar," Finlayson says. A soil layer above the bedrock ledge contains Neanderthal tools, the team reports, and chemical analysis of the carving's patina points to its age."
- Ken Morley
I particularly like that the drawing may be the board of the very first game people (or rather Neanderthals) played, something like tic-tac-toe.
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Neanderthal hashtag. Sorry, Ev.
- Technodad
^ :))
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