Further news that Neanderthals created art should come as no surprise to the open-minded readers of LSS.
The historiography of Neanderthals has suffered appalling misconceptions. At first, they were presented as ape like brutes, incapable of speech or reason. Even in the supposedly more enlightened times of the 19990s, it was still generally held that only Homo sapiens had the true intellectual capacity to produce art, grammatical speech and really good tools.
And so this article by Ian Sample for the Guardian [1] not only continues to redress the balance, it adduces further proof to our long held maxim: Be careful of everything you read, and look very closely indeed at anyone who may be going beyond the facts. If only a few thousand Daily Mail readers had done that in 2016, we might not be in this mess today.
[1]https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/engravings-french-cave-oldest-known-neanderthals-scientists
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