World’s Oldest Cave Art Possibly Made by Neanderthals
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Cave paintings in northern Spain, possibly created by Neanderthals, may be the oldest known examples in the world, according to a new analysis.
Hand stencils and disks made by blowing paint onto the wall in El Castillo cave were found to date back at least 40,800 years, according to a team of researchers led by Alistair Pike of the University of Bristol in England. One red disk depiction found in Spain pre-dates pictures at Chauvet cave in France by about 4,000 years, they said. Their analysis was published today in the journal Science.