Archaeologists have concluded that a series of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France were made by Neanderthals using their fingers, some 57,000 years ago. They could be the oldest such marks ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront how little they know about the people who once moved through these caves.

Some of the walls also had markings from various lithic tools alongside the finger markings, scientists said. O. Spaey and G. Alain Our closest extinct human relative, Neanderthals, roamed Europe and ...

In a remarkable archaeological discovery, finger traces left by the ancestors of Australia’s First Nations people have been found deep within a glittering limestone cave in GunaiKurnai Country. The ...

Neanderthals used their fingers to carve symbols into the wall of a cave in France at least 57,000 years ago. The engravings are some of the oldest known examples of Neanderthal art and are possibly ...