Oldest Human Fingerprint Found
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43,000-year-old human fingerprint is world's oldest — and made by a Neanderthal
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A red dot on a face-shaped rock in Spain may be the oldest human fingerprint on record.
The researchers say the red dot was placed as a "nose" to highlight the rock's resemblance to a human face.
The discovery is a further challenge to the idea that Neanderthals were generally not capable of symbolic art.
"This find adds to the growing corpus of objects made by the Neanderthals that are non-functional in nature" Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor.
He has also written for the BBC , NBC News , National Geographic , Scientific American , Air & Space and many others.
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