Oldest Denisovan art discovered on 100,000-year-old bone fragments
They might not look much compared to the work of Michelangelo or Vincent van Gogh. But a couple of abstract etchings discovered in China could be a sign that the Denisovans, our mysterious extinct cousins, were artists. The 100,000-year-old marks on two pieces of bone also bolster the idea that Denisovans, like Neanderthals, were capable of symbolic thought – once regarded as something only modern humans could do.
The bones were unearthed at Lingjing in Henan Province, China, a site where a population of archaic humans, thought to be Denisovans.
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