A Glimpse into Neanderthal Symbolism. Neanderthals have long been associated with complex tool-making and survival skills, but their capacity for symbolic thought has often been debated.

Around 39,000 years ago, a Neanderthal huddled in the back of a seaside cave at Gibraltar, safe from the hyenas, lions and leopards that might have prowled outside.

Prehistoric dots and crimson hand stencils on Spanish cave walls are now the world's oldest known cave art, according to new dating results—perhaps the best evidence yet that Neanderthals were ...

These images, painted in ocher on cave walls in Spain, are the oldest-known examples of cave art ever found. And all three were created not by humans, but by Neanderthals, scientists say. News ...

Red pigment washed into the concavities of a bright stalactite drapery in Ardales Cave. Paul Pettitt and cave art dating team, Author provided. Then, at least 65,000 years ago, Neanderthals used ...

Neanderthals are popularly regarded as the large and stupid cousins of humans who lack our intellectual sophistication. After all, they went extinct — we didn't (at least not yet.) Despite ...

Talk about outsider art: Researchers say they have found the first evidence of abstract art created by Neanderthals in a cave above the Mediterranean Sea. The “art,” pictured above, was found ...

Did Neanderthal art brush off on us? Published 21 March 2018. From Faith Anstey, Dalguise, Perth and Kinross, UK . Michael Marshall reports the discovery of Neanderthal cave art (3 March, p 16).

Researchers didn’t see the Neanderthal art until the 1970s. Now, it’s taken another several decades to accurately determine when those drawings were probably made.

Researchers say this incised bone, carved by Neanderthals more than 50,000 years ago, is evidence that our extinct cousins could create ‘art’ in the modern human sense of the word—or, at the ...

Now, a new study sheds light on just how ancient Neanderthal art is, a staggering 57,000 years old. According to researchers who recently analyzed famous cave paintings in France, ...