Archaeologists have concluded that a series of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France were made by Neanderthals using their fingers, some 57,000 years ago. They could be the oldest such marks ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront how little they know about the people who once moved through these caves.

Some of the walls also had markings from various lithic tools alongside the finger markings, scientists said. O. Spaey and G. Alain Our closest extinct human relative, Neanderthals, roamed Europe and ...