This question has worried paleontologists and archaeologists since 2018, when a study was published,
Judging by the analysis, this work of art is at least 64.8 thousand years old: it was made at a time when modern people did not inhabit the continent.
New analysis shows that the composition and locationpigments could not be produced naturally - instead they were applied by splashing and blowing. Moreover, the pigment was not obtained from the cave; it was presumably brought there specifically. And this happened not just once, but over several years.
But the new discovery once again confirms thatThe Neanderthals, whose ancestry became extinct about 40 thousand years ago, were not the crude and simple relatives of Homo sapiens, as they have long been portrayed.
The authors of the new work note that pigments are not art in the narrow sense of the word, but rather the result of graphic work with the aim of perpetuating information.
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