Gallery C of La Pasiega cave in Monte Castillo.
The big news this week in Anthropology is that a species besides humans seems to have painted. Dirk Hoffman and Allistair Pike have published an article in the journal Science that dates the paintings to well over 65,000 years ago. That is 25,000 years older than previously dated art from Spain and Indonesia.
65,000 years ago the only known species that could have made the paintings are Neanderthals. The dates come from three caves widely separated in Spain. This is a stunning development in the world of art history. Hoffman and Pike explain their results in the video below.
You can reach the Science article here.
In this video from National Geographic shot in 2014 Allistair Pike discusses his belief that Neanderthals could have made art.
