Who you calling dumb?
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| Picasso who? |
Talk about image rehab: once the poster children for nasty, brutish, short, and caveman-dumb, Neanderthals are now being hailed as contenders for the title of prehistory's first Michelangelos.
Scientists using a new dating technique reported Thursday that many of the most famous cave paintings in Spain are thousands of years older than previously thought - ancient enough to have been created not by Homo sapiens like ourselves but by Neanderthals, the species that lived in Europe long before the newcomers arrived from Africa. (Reuters)
Just as we were thinking that we were the brush an' ocher crew, the vertically challenged, barrel chesters' pee in our paint pots. Strewth!
