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Ancient coloured 'pencil' up to 50,000 years old found in Siberia
By The Siberian Times reporter12 December 2018
Cave-dwellers used hematite crayon for art work in Altai Mountains, say archeologists.
The pre-historic artists were not Homo sapiens but Denisovans - a long-extinct branch of ancient man - or possibly Neanderthals, another vanished sub-species, believe scientists.
The crayon was used to make reddish brown marks.
It was found in a layer of the world famous Denisova Cave this summer.
This layer dates to between 45,000 and 50,000 years ago and was occupied mainly by the long-gone Denisovans whose closest modern-day descendants live thousands of miles away as the native peoples of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
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https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/ancient-coloured-pencil-up-to-50000-years-old-found-in-siberia/