Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer are signs that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought. Neanderthals decorated themselves with feathers, drew cave ...

The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived on the scene ...

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The stereotypical image of a Neanderthal is that of a brutish, unintelligent and uncivilized caveman. However, a new study from researchers at the University of Wrocław in Poland is attempting to ...

A group of mainly elderly women in the town of Varnavino in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region are trying to preserve the dying art of bone carving.

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS Correspondent Ulyana Lavtsevich/. Alexandra Nypevgi, managing a bone-carving workshop in the Chukchi village of Uelen, told us with the modesty, typical for northern peoples ...