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Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable

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Fig. 1: Schematic of formation of ‘cauliflower’ speleothems of different ages (A, B and C) on top of a paint layer.

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  1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

    Dirk L. Hoffmann

  2. Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Christopher D. Standish & Alistair W. G. Pike

  3. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Isabel I, Burgos, Spain

    Marcos García-Diez

  4. Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK

    Paul B. Pettitt

  5. Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

    Diego E. Angelucci

  6. Departament de Prehistòria i d’Arqueologia, Universitat de València, València, Spain

    Valentín Villaverde

  7. Área de Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Josefina Zapata

  8. Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, UK

    James A. Milton

  9. Prehistory Section, University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Alcolea-González & Rodrigo de Balbín

  10. Centro de la Prehistoria/Cueva de Ardales, Ardales, Málaga, Spain

    Pedro Cantalejo-Duarte

  11. Quaternary-Prehistory Research Group, I-PAT Research Group, D.G. Bibliotecas, Museos y Patrimonio Cultural, Junta de Extremadura, Spain

    Hipolito Collado

  12. CNRS, Roc des Monges, St Sozy, France

    Michel Lorblanchet

  13. Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Filosofia, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain

    José Ramos-Muñoz

  14. Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany

    Gerd-Christian Weniger

  15. Institute of Prehistory, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Gerd-Christian Weniger

  16. Departament d‘Història i Arqueologia (SERP), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    João Zilhão

  17. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

    João Zilhão

  18. Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa (UNIARQ), Faculdade de Letras, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Zilhão

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Hoffmann, D.L., Standish, C.D., Pike, A.W.G. et al. Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 1044–1045 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0598-z

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