Just a bit of fascinating news to be filed under - art, imagination and may be just a touch of 'ritual'................
"176,500 years ago, long before modern humans left Africa for the Eurasian continent, a band of Neanderthals conducted an elaborate ritual deep inside Bruniquel Cave in a region we know today as southern France. The Neanderthal group wrested hundreds of stalagmites from the floor of the cave to build elaborate circular structures, their work illuminated only by firelight. Discovered by archaeologists in the 1990s, the cave system is so large that many of its great treasures are hidden far from its entrance, which suggests it was thoroughly explored and probably inhabited for some period of time. This new part of the cave, analyzed only recently, adds to our understanding of Neanderthal social life."
http://arstechnica.com/science[...]tures-created-by-neanderthals/
 Reply | with quote | Posted by moss
26th May 2016ce
09:07 |
Neanderthal News (moss, May 26, 2016, 09:07)
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