Neanderthals crafted red and yellow “crayons” tens of thousands of years ago, using different techniques to sharpen the instruments’ edges into a perfect point, a new study finds. These Neanderthals, who lived in what is now Crimea, sculpted their crayons out of ocher (also spelled ochre), an iron-containing mineral that can be used as pigment. In the new study, the …
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