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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/26/like-a-face-discovery-reinforces-idea-neanderthals-created-art-say-experts
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/26/like-a-face-discovery-reinforces-idea-neanderthals-created-art-say-experts
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D. Γlvarez-Alonso et al., More than a #fingerprint on a pebble: A pigment-marked object from San LΓ‘zaro rock-shelter in the context of #Neanderthal symbolic behavior, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16, 2025. π
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02243-1#Sec19
was likely used in burials and stone tool adhesive, but from a fingerprint to "art" is a bit of a stretch.
The name of that pebble is Wilson.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10423851/
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