A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world’s oldest works of art, researchers say

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.

 

A Haunted Patrimony

Click Here to Read:: Through their art collecting wealthy Jews staked a claim to being French, but the nation they loved savagely betrayed them by David A. Bell on the New York Review of Books website on July 1, 2021 issue.
Salon des Huet de l’Hôtel Moïse de Camondo. Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (75008). Image:  GO69  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.