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Neanderthals engraved a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago CNN 15 hrs ago By Katie Hunt, CNN © V. Minkus/NLD The giant deer bone has no practical use and is believed to be purely decorative. A tiny piece of bone that once belonged to a giant Ice Age deer is changing how we think about Neanderthals. Found in Einhornhöhle cave in northern Germany, the decorated deer phalanx, or toe bone, features an engraved geometric pattern and has been dated, using several techniques, to at least 51,000 years old. It refreshes the debate over to what extent Neanderthals, the heavily ...

A tiny bone is changing how we think about Neanderthals CNN 6th July, 2021 11:31:30 AM A tiny piece of bone that once belonged to a giant Ice Age deer is changing how we think about Neanderthals. Found in Einhornhöhle cave in northern Germany, the decorated deer phalanx, or toe bone, features an engraved geometric pattern and has been dated, using several techniques, to at least 51,000 years old. It refreshes the debate over to what extent Neanderthals, the heavily built Stone Age hominins that disappeared about 40,000 years ago, were capable of artistic expression and symbolic thought and w...