World’s Oldest Cave Paintings May Have Been Made by Neanderthals, Study Reveals

A group of archaeologists has uncovered new evidence suggesting that elusive red ochre pigment in Cave of Ardales in Spain was applied by Neanderthals. Their findings, published in a recent study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), are a key contribution to a long held debate in the archaeological community over the paintings’ origins. 
The study, “The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals” by Africa Pitarch Mar