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Colored stalagmites in the Cueva de Ardales cave in Malaga, southern Spain.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—A recent study confirmed that Neanderthal actually painted stalagmites in a Spanish cave more than 60,000 years ago. The results of the study were published in the journal PNAS.
Neanderthal which has been considered unsophisticated and brutal. The issue has rocked the paleoarcheological community since the publication of a 2018 paper linking the red ocher pigment found in the Cueva de Ardales stalagmite dome with Neanderthal which has become extinct.
Cueva de Ardales in Malaga, Spain, is one of the caves with rock pictures The richest and best preserved Paleolithic in southwestern Europe. There are more than a thousand graphical representations. Rock pictures It is at least 64,800 years old, made when modern humans had not yet inhabited the European continent.
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