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 ...

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.

The markings on the weathered rib bones contain traces of ochre on one ... and previously thought to be the earliest-known example of human artistic activity. “This discovery indicates that ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have discovered that around 15,000 years ago, British cave dwellers filleted and ate their dead relatives before inscribing markings on their bones in grisly prehistoric rituals.

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 ...