Neanderthals are slowly shaking their reputation as our more “primitive” cousins. A 2021 find from a “Unicorn Cave” in Germany found early hints of Neanderthal art dating back 51,000 years.

The discovery is the latest in a series of findings that suggest Neanderthals weren't as primitive ... art, where someone drags fingers through a soft surface. The walls of the cave are a chalky ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France ... to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive ...

Justin Mott A headlamp illuminates ancient cave-art hand stencils inside Leang Sakapao ... Claude Lévi-Strauss famously argued in 1962 that primitive peoples chose to identify with and represent ...

Banksy also hung a sign saying the cave art showed "early man venturing towards the out-of-town hunting grounds". It read: "This finely preserved example of primitive art dates from the Post-Catatonic ...

The paintings are older than Europe’s famed cave art such as Lascaux in France, and, while younger than some geometric abstract art found in South Africa, it’s the oldest of a narrative scene ...

Fragments of mythology' Jaubert thinks the cave may have been used for initiation ceremonies, "a rite of passage for adolescents to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive ...