Ancient cave paintings dating back 65,000 years are turning human history on its head. Found in remote caves across four continents, these artworks suggest a shocking origin—and they weren’t made by who you think.
  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    7 days ago

    Garbage clickbait headline 😮‍💨.

    “Some time before sapiens seems to have expanded into this particular area” is not at all the same as “long before humans existed”.

    Neanderthals are literally our ancestors, they have everything we think of as human.

    There was a now debunked idea that symbolic thought emerged in europe ~40kya. The explosion of symbolic art we see then is in part because of preservation factors and how well studied europe is.

    It’s fairly well established that non-sapiens humans were capable of symbolic thought. No one is surprised that neanderthals made cool art.