Neanderthals drew first #hashtags

• Autores: Catherine Brahic
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2985, 2014, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • No one can say if idle doodle, a game of Stone Age tic-tac-toe, is the first evidence of Neanderthal art. But two things seem reasonably clear: these scratches in the hard stone floor of a cave in Gibraltar are the work of a Neanderthal, and they were made purposefully more than 39,000 years ago. Some say they are abstract symbols, bolstering the notion that Neanderthals were capable of subtle symbolic thought. Others remain to be convinced. The etchings were discovered by Clive Finlayson of the Gibraltar Museum and his colleagues on the floor of Gorham's cave on Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean.