A recently published study suggests humans' creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

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The discovery of the crayon with evidence of repeated sharpening suggests that Neanderthals in Crimea sometimes used ocher ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 42,000-year-old yellow ochre stick in Crimea and Ukraine, suggesting Neanderthals possessed ...

I n another blow to the image of Neanderthal as brutish troglodyte, we’ve identified the tools the ancient hominin used to ...

Ochre is an iron-rich mineral pigment that was used by many ancient civilizations for color, decoration and practical tasks ...

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent ...

This video explores whether crayons — often seen as a child’s tool — can be used to create a complete, character-focused illustration. The process includes sketching, layering, and shading with ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

Considering the selection of sketches themselves, the curators of “Sketch, Shade, Smudge” provided a brilliant array of ...