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Spanish Pebble Yields 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Face Abstraction, Fingerprint

Multispectral imaging confirmed the ochre mark as an abstract face depiction that preserves a Neanderthal fingerprint.

43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fingerprint on Ochre Pebble Reveals Early Symbolic Art