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The report in the journal Science is based on new technology that reveals the most accurate age yet of ancient cave paintings at three different archeological sites in Spain. &#8220;This is an incredibly exciting discovery which suggests Neanderthals were much more sophisticated than is popularly believed,&#8221; said co-lead author Chris Standish, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton. &#8220;Our results show that the paintings we dated are, by far, the oldest known cave art in the world.&#8221; Since they were created some 64,000 years ago &#8212; at least 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa &#8212; &#8220;they must have been painted by Neanderthals,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s oldest known cave art was crafted by Neanderthals more than 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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