Click Here To Read: A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world’s oldest works of art, researchers say. The discovery highlights that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic thought — something once attributed only to our own species. By Tom Metcalfe on the NBC News weon July 5, 2021,
Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) Irish elk skeleton from the Pleistocene (public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA). Image: James St. John PUblic Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.