The bone has 17 parallel markings that researchers believe were ... This isn’t the only example of Neanderthals exhibiting the unique habit of carving symbolic parallel cuts into bones.

Because the markings were carved on the same side of a relatively undamaged bone, the researchers speculate ... “This engraving is very likely an example of symbolic activity and is the oldest ...

A team of researchers, led by Jean-Claude Marquet of the University of Tours in France, believe the markings “demonstrate ... marks on the wall — using bone, wood, antlers, flint and metal ...

A fossilized leg bone bearing cut marks made by stone tools ... for animal bite marks — when she found unexpected linear markings a few millimetres long on the fossil of a tibia belonging ...