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Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals
By AFP - Jul 06,2021 - Last updated at Jul 06,2021
This undated handout photo released by Niedersachsisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege on Monday, shows an engraved giant deer bone from Einhornhohle, northern Germany (AFP photo)
PARIS The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived on the scene, researchers said on Monday.
The engraving, discovered at a German cave where Neanderthals lived tens of thousands of years ago, has no obvious utility according to researchers who say the artifact sheds new light on the ill-fated species capacity for creativity.
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