the researchers identified three ocher crayons dating up to 100,000 years ago that appeared to have had "curated use," ...

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Learn about the crayon-like tools made by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic and how these objects likely prove the ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

A 42,000-year-old ochre “crayon” found in Ukraine may prove that Neanderthals were artists.

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that ...

Ochre is an iron-rich mineral pigment that was used by many ancient civilizations for color, decoration and practical tasks ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

Considering the selection of sketches themselves, the curators of “Sketch, Shade, Smudge” provided a brilliant array of ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

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