Neanderthals left behind artwork 64,000 years ago

New discoveries show that Neanderthals were capable of artistic creation, leaving behind hand-drawn drawings and symbols in caves tens of thousands of years ago.

Neanderthals, extinct relatives of Homo sapiens, left behind a number of artworks on cave walls and rock shelters... This is evidence that they had artistic talent. Photo: WH Pics via Shutterstock.

According to experts, Neanderthals were creating works of art at least 64,000 years ago. Photo: Courtesy Jean-Claude Marquet, Paul Pettitt).

The art form practiced by Neanderthals included hand drawings. They did this by applying paint to their hands and pressing them firmly against the surface they wanted to leave a design on. Photo: durham.ac.uk.

Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia from about 400,000 years ago. They coexisted with Homo sapiens for a time and interbred. However, Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Photo: Stocktrek Images, Inc. / Alamy.

This discovery refutes the previous view that Neanderthals were cruel, uncultured, and incapable of art. Photo: NBC.

Researchers also know that Neanderthals were capable of making jewelry and using pigments. They also explored many caves and left behind artifacts inside. Photo: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw.

Among them, three caves in Spain, including La Pasiega in Cantabria, Maltravieso in Extremadura and Ardales in Malaga, have evidence that Neanderthals created linear symbols, geometric shapes, hand molds and fingerprints using pigments. Photo: UNiesert.

At La Roche Cotard, a cave in the Loire Valley, France, experts discovered that Neanderthals left behind various lines and shapes in their finger grooves (the lines that fingers leave on soft surfaces). Photo: dpa picture alliance archive / Alamy Stock Photo.

Dating Paleolithic cave art is a difficult task for experts, who have used a variety of methods to determine that Neanderthals created the artworks no later than 54,000 years ago. Photo: Tyler B. Tretsven.

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