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With touch of a finger, a Neanderthal may have made art

A 43,000 year-old work of art? Neanderthals may have painted portraits.

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic significance.

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Ancient human fingerprint suggests Neanderthals made art

Spanish official Gonzalo Santonja said the pebble was the oldest portable object to be painted in the European continent and "the only object of portable art painted by Neanderthals". Multi ...

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With just one touch of a finger, a Neanderthal may have made art

Researchers in Spain say they have found evidence that Neanderthals were capable of creating art — challenging the idea that art began with the modern humans who succeeded them.

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World’s oldest selfie? 43,000-year-old Neanderthal art reveals earliest face perception

Interestingly, this small stone holds the oldest and most complete Neanderthal fingerprint ever discovered. A prehistoric ...

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Prehistoric fingerprint found in Spain offers clue to Neanderthal capacity for making art, study finds

Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

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Pebble by pebble, artist Kevin Carman pieces together 100,000-stone pathway at Bok Tower Gardens

LAKE WALES — Rembrandt never invited people to trample on his ... Carman, 50, worked as a stone mason before devoting himself fully to art 16 years ago. In addition to making mosaics, he sculpts ...

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Is 3-million-year-old pebble ‘earliest piece of found art’?

"This is an example of early curiosity, a pre-cursor to true art that some people have called the earliest piece ... The naturally-formed pebble—also known as the stone of many faces—was found ...

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The Pebble In Your Pocket

‘The beautifully shaped stone ... of pebble dashers – people who work with and are captivated by pebbles. In Cambridge, we visit Kettle’s Yard gallery – created by the late art collector ...

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Duchamp Did Not Invent the Readymade. In Fact, It May Have Been the First Human Art Form

When you think of the oldest art, in all likelihood ... This is part of why I find “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone” at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas so cool.

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