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The "Cognitive Rubicon" is dead. High-precision U-Th dating of Spanish cave art proves red hand stencils are 64.8 ka—20,000 years before Homo sapiens arrived. #Neanderthals were the artists. Why is archaeology still fighting the data?
Redrawing the lines: open.substack.com/pub/deephist...
more coming...
Almost every time we look at the DNA from ancient creatures, we find signs that their evolution involved surprising mixtures. New work on cave lions finds they’re not as different as long thought.
www.johnhawks.net/p/the-ancien...
The pushback was immediate. Critics scrambled to find taphonomic flaws, claiming "open-system" Uranium leaching or "calcite anomalies" to preserve human exceptionalism.
In this piece, we break down the raw MC-ICP-MS datasets and geochemically dismantle the skeptics.
What is the next frontier? We are standing on the precipice of a biomolecular revolution in archaeology.
Researchers are now looking beyond geochronology to direct organic residue analysis and paleoproteomics of pigment binders. The future is electrifying.
In 2018, dating of calcite overlying Spanish cave art yielded ages exceeding 64kya (Hoffmann et al.).
Since Homo sapiens didn't arrive in Western Europe for another 20,000 years, the math is inescapable: Neanderthals were the artists. 🧵
Did #Neanderthals make rock art? 🎨 Yes! Join Genevieve von Petzinger on The Ancients podcast as she dives into Ice Age cave symbols, handprints, & hominin cognition. Time to shatter the old dogmas!
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Did Neanderthals paint the caves of Europe? 🎨
The geochronological battle over 64,000-year-old rock art is heating up, and the outdated "Cognitive Rubicon" is on the verge of total collapse.
My latest deep dive is live. Read the full analysis here:
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open.substack.com/pub/deephist...
Neanderthal chemists! New study shows they made complex compound adhesives over 40,000 years ago. Another blow to the "Cognitive Rubicon"!
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ready to finally retire the "primitive" trope?
