they looked out from the high cave-aeries of Gibraltar, and searched for the distant sea

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I definitely anticipate all kinds of things being done with this.

Oldest Cave Paintings May Be Creations of Neandertals, Not Modern Humans

And I can't wait to see the results of this new dating method for the other cave paintings worldwide, particularly in Australia. Every so often something here like a hearth gets dated at close to 100k years; it

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Oldest Cave Paintings May Be Creations of Neandertals, Not Modern Humans

Dude.

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There may have been a lot of squeeing.

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There may have been a lot of squeeing.

The last sentence has some ghosts in it, though: a number of experts argue that it was their encounters with incoming modern humans that stimulated innovation and self-expression-encounters that also spurred modern humans to greater creative heights. Back to the tarot deck of war . . .

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Back to the tarot deck of war . . .

Heh. Precisely. We ate our ancestors, after all.
But there's of course the happy caveat that maybe it wasn't so; we can hope that our reconstructions are yet faulty, and everyone was just getting better at art. I get a little tired of believing the worst of our ancestors at times...

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And given Science's in-house critique/highlight of the journal article was given by an Australian researcher, it may already be in progress!