Reporting in Science, researchers write that a red disk painted in Spain's El Castillo cave is at least 40,800 years old--making it the oldest known European cave art. Archaeologist Alistair Pike discusses how his team dated the disk, and whether Neanderthals could have painted it.
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Jun. 15, 2012
Neanderthals: The Oldest Cave Painters?
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Alistair Pike
Reader in Archaeological Sciences
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Bristol
Bristol, England
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