Red disks, hand stencils and club-shaped drawings lining the walls of several Stone Age caves in Spain were painted so long ago that Neandertals might have been their makers, say researchers armed with a high-powered method for dating ancient stone.
OLD HANDS Stencils made by blowing pigment over a person’s hand dot the walls of Spain’s El Castillo cave.
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