Daily Mail: Neanderthals were ‘using paint thousands of years earlier than previously thought’

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Neanderthals were using red paint up to 250,000 years ago – far earlier than previously thought.
Traces of the paint, made from ochre, were dug up in the Netherlands and dated to a quarter of a million years ago.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2090718/Neanderthals-using-paint-250-000-years-ago–thousands-years-earlier-previously-thought.html

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