Could it be that in some rare cases, artistic expression began before modern Homo sapiens?
The earliest unequivocal evidence for human speech is the cave art and other artifacts of modern Homo sapiens, beginning some 40,000 years ago.
The most spectacular evidence for it showed up after modern Homo sapiens arrived there from Africa about 40,000 years ago.
Later study showed that the skull was a modern Homo sapien, the teeth were normal, but heavily worn.
Neanderthals may have seen their first modern Homo sapiens some 100,000 years ago in what is now Israel.
This is a hominid site as modern Homo sapiens did not appear until around 50,000 years ago.
Among modern Homo sapiens, the average cranial capacity is something like 1,400 or 1,500 c.c.
The revised date, they said, makes the skulls and bones the earliest known remains of modern Homo sapiens.
It is associated with anatomically modern or almost modern Homo sapiens.
According to current research, only the modern human Homo sapiens reached the Neolithic era.
