Our closest extinct human relative, Neanderthals, roamed Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago. Since their discovery in the 1800s, experts have understood Neanderthals as having limited ...

Archaeologists have concluded that a series of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France were made by Neanderthals using their fingers, some 57,000 years ago. They could be the oldest such marks ...

For decades, the meaning behind ancient finger-drawn lines etched into limestone cave walls remained elusive. Known as finger flutings, these grooves—some over 60,000 years old—are among the earliest ...

Neanderthals used their fingers to carve symbols into the wall of a cave in France at least 57,000 years ago. The engravings are some of the oldest known examples of Neanderthal art and are possibly ...

Some of the walls also had markings from various lithic tools alongside the finger markings, scientists said. O. Spaey and G. Alain Our closest extinct human relative, Neanderthals, roamed Europe and ...