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...
Dismantling the Cognitive Rubicon: A deep dive into the 64ka Neanderthal cave art battle, U-Th dating science, and an upcoming, paradigm-shifting DNA study.