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 ...

A tiny deer bone found in a German cave offers the latest evidence that Homo sapiens are not the only ones capable of making art. As Becky Ferreira reports for Vice, scientists used radiocarbon dating ...

Scientists have discovered a giant deer toe bone, engraved by Neanderthals — a hint that our ancient cousins had conceptual imagination. Beneath the pine and birch forest of northern Germany lies ...

A bone to pick from Germany’s Unicorn Cave. Plus fireflies in sync, peer review in crisis and China’s astronauts at work in their spacesuits. By Virginia Hughes In 2019, a team of archaeologists ...

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 ...