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Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons

Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons

“Other authors point out that symbolic and utilitarian functions are intimately linked among traditional populations,” wrote D’Errico and his colleagues, “and that, as a result, it would have been difficult for a systematic use of ocher powders to exist over a long period of time without a symbolic dimension being rather quickly attached to it.” Tens of thousands of years …

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