A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object in question is a granite stone, on which a red ochre dot was deliberately ...
The human brain has a remarkable capacity for discovering faces in random objects. With no prompting whatsoever, clouds, cars, clocks, and rocks can take on quirky expressions. There’s a word for the ...
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 species ...
From a flaky skull, found "as flat as a pizza" on a cave floor in northern Iraq, the face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named "Shanidar Z" has been reconstructed. With her calm and considered ...
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Nevada survey, 1994. Image on file. unsigned The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American ...
The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site ...
Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...
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