Cave paintings in Spain were produced at least 64,000 years ago, a full 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe. Skip to content ... Our species, Homo sapiens, ...

Researchers have discovered that Neanderthals, not homo sapiens, created a series of 64,000 year-old cave drawings in Spain.Published in the journal Science, this study marks the first time that ...

Or the Neanderthals themselves could have created the first paintings, and Homo sapiens picked up the artistic habit while Homo neanderthalensis faded away. The Pedro Saura ...

European cave paintings are older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals rather than Homo sapiens were the earliest painters. That's not yet certain: The paintings may ...

Ancient art by Neanderthals and Homo sapiens has been found before, even in the same cave. Last year, over 1,000 artworks spanning 50,000 years were found in Spain’s Cueva de Ardales .

Neanderthal Cave Art Suggests They Were Smarter Than We Thought ... Neanderthals and Homo sapiens share more than 99 percent of their DNA. But it’s still an intriguing question.

In contrast, a 44,000-year-old cave painting by Homo sapiens is more representative of what the artist would've seen, with human-like figures hunting pigs and a water buffalo.

The new findings add to increasing evidence that Neanderthals, whose lineage became extinct about 40,000 years ago, were not the unsophisticated relatives of Homo sapiens they had long been ...

The cave paintings in Indonesia are shedding new light on ... either emerged before Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and headed for Europe and Asia more than 60,000 years ago or that it ...

On top of the 3D roamings inside the cave, “Master Sapiens” also employs animation, archival material, reenactments with professional actors and testimonials with a wide range of specialists ...