A nearly 130,000-year-old bear bone was deliberately marked with cuts and might be one of the oldest art pieces in Eurasia crafted by the Neanderthals, researchers say. The roughly cylindrical ...

The bone is one of several contenders for the much-disputed title of the "world's oldest art." This is a broad and crowded field — encompassing what look like accidental chicken scratches and ...

The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, argues that a 130,000-year-old bear bone with Neanderthal carvings may be one of the oldest known art pieces in Eurasia. The bone ...