Did a Neanderthal Spot a Face in This Rock 43,000 Years Ago—and Leave a Fingerprint Behind?

When digging inside a cave in Segovia, Archaeologists opened an unusual rock. Many-sized stone is naturally stretched, and demonstrated a point of red pigment made from Ocher, which is made of the nose.

“We all thought of the same and looked at each other to each other. tell Guardian.

Alvarez Alonso and his colleagues spent the next three years read this strange rock. Researchers bashed 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal, a Neanderthal, fathers in the ocher and pressed the center series of stone standing behind the world’s oldest fully full full work. This is an interesting find that can lead to significant results, but some experts want to see more evidence to support this hypothesis.

The team published their findings in the magazine Archaeological and anthropological sciences On Saturday, May 24, Archaeologists show that the “strategic position” of the “strategic position” of the “strategic position” is a work of art that can represent one of the previous person’s face Rihaz.

“This truth [rock] “The researchers are written by a person who was selected because of the appearance of the Ocher and then a person who is marked by a person marked, idealizing or an object.”

Whether neanderthals are able to prepare art, it is a topic of the ongoing disputes, the author of the co-founder Maria de Andrés-Herrero, Prehistory professor at the University of Compulise, tell BBC. But in the last ten years, an increased argument He led many experts to believe that The artistic expression appeared in human evolution before previously thought.

The authors of this new study think that the stones are added to these evidence. To achieve this result, more information was needed to support the idea that this ancient artist is actually experienced by Pareidolia: to see a face in an object of lifeless. For this purpose, they created a 3D model of the stone surface, and measured the distances between its characteristics, the red point, or the nose knew that they were properly like a human face.

Then researchers were involved in the help of geologists to characterize the red point, confirmed that it was done with Ocher. Judicial police experts then used multispectral analysis – used a technique that can reveal the invisible details to confirm that the red point is applied with the fingertip. Their analysis opened a fingerprint that can belong to a male man neanderthala inside the point.

“Once this and all other pieces, context and information, then we developed a pareidolia that caused a person’s intervention in the shape of red,” he said. “He can’t claim any of the objects without red.”

However, in Minnesota University, which examines Neandertal behavior, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Gilliane Monnier, is not completely confident by the findings of researchers.

“This is the presence of natural depression and measuring the distance between them and measure the distance between them and everything is good and good,” Monnier did not attend the vision, Gizmodo said. “But this does not give any indicators of Neanderthals [occupied this cave] saw a face [rock]”

In addition, the researchers claim that the red point is actually done with a person’s finger. It is possible that he has occurred in a natural way, as the series of painting and fingerprints.

“I would be interested in seeing a person carried out by a geologist that this formation is likely to be very likely to be inhabited by the natural, geological or geomicrobial processes,” Monnier said.

Survey, “This hypothesis may be fully distributed,” this hypothesis may be fully disputed, “and the fact that the pareprising hypothesis is a definite claim, but to let this objective explanation for this object based on evidence.

Thus, it is difficult to say that this work has clarified our understanding of how the human mind is the ability to create art. The face-shaped rock is an interesting part of the riddle, but you need more research to find places where it is fit.