From Faith Anstey, Dalguise, Perth and Kinross, UK
Michael Marshall reports the discovery of Neanderthal cave art (3 March, p 16). There is an oft-repeated myth that Cro-Magnon cave art – and even symbolism itself – “exploded” onto the European scene in 40,000 BC. Rather than proving how the Cro-Magnons made this great leap forward in civilisation, perhaps it shows that contact with Neanderthals sparked off the apparently fully fledged artwork that the latter had been developing for millennia?
