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A gallery of ancient cave markings determined to have been created as far back as 75,000 years ago is likely to be the handiwork of Neanderthals.The team of researchers behind an analysis of artwork found in the French cave of La Roche-Cotard argue this is the earliest unambiguous example of Neanderthal cave engravings ever discovered, demonstrating our closest cousins shared our creativity and desire for self-expression.When dating the sediment that used to cover the cave's entrance, archaeologist Jean-Claude Marquet of…

Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to take OSL samples. Credit: Kristina Thomsen, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jean-Claude Marquet of the University of Tours, France and colleagues.…

Looking back at the entrance of Tam Pà Ling cave from the cave floor. The excavation pit is the left of this location. Credit: Kira Westaway (Macquarie University)Tam Pà Ling, a cave located in the northern region of Laos, unveils new insights into the earliest human migrations from Africa all the way to Australia.What links a fossil discovered in a northern Laotian cave to ancient stone tools from northern Australia? It’s us, Homo sapiens. As our forebears journeyed from Africa to Australia, they marked their path with…

Faith, Hope and Carnage is built around a series of telephone exchanges in lockdown in 2020 between the musician Nick Cave and the journalist Seán O’Hagan. These conversations were later transcribed and arranged as an extended Q&A, and a memoir of sorts, in which Cave reflects on art, music, religion, death, his childhood in Australia and his hell-raising early adulthood.The audiobook, then, is the project come full circle, with Cave and O’Hagan narrating the text of their conversations. If O’Hagan’s delivery is a…

Until very recently, nobody much cared about Nick Cave’s political opinions, including Cave himself. For most of his career, which began in Melbourne in the late 70s, he was too entrenched in the badlands of his imagination to be one of those musicians to whom journalists turned for a righteous line on an election or a war. He has never written a protest song nor aligned himself with a cause. Since 2018, he has sometimes discussed cultural politics in The Red Hand Files, his online project answering questions from fans,…

Nick Cave has said that boycotting songs because of the actions of the artist “is not a very good way to go about things”.The Australian singer-songwriter told the Hay festival: “Making art – especially making music – it prevents you from becoming the worst aspects of your character, and that’s why I very much think we need to be very, very careful about the music we don’t think people should listen to any more because of what the artist who has made that music may have been like,” the Australian singer-songwriter…

Zac Thompson and Jeff McComsey have a brand new series launching from Mad Cave Studios in their August 2023 solicitations, Project RieseZac Thompson and Jeff McComsey have a brand new series launching from Mad Cave Studios in August, Project Riese as a post-World War II action-adventure across.  Here's the solicit as well as everything else from Mad Cave Studios in their August 2023 solicits and solicitations, including Under The Influence, You've Been Cancelled, Monomyth, Exorcists Never Die, Monomyth, Hunt Kill Repeat…

This fall, Mad Cave Studios is bringing readers a new take on classic Romanian folklore. The new graphic novel Whisper of the Woods comes from writer/artist Ennun Ana Iurov and letterer Micah Myers, and follows a young man on a desperate search for a missing friend who encounters more than he ever imagined. Here’s how Mad Cave describes Whisper of the Woods: In search of his missing friend, Adam travels to the heart of Romania’s most supernatural forest, Hoia Baciu. Disregarding the local’s warnings of iele hunting the…

Nick Cave has denied being a monarchist or a royalist after it was revealed he is attending the coronation of King Charles III, saying he “hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the royals”.Writing in his newsletter the Red Hand Files, in reply to letters from three Australians and one Brit – some incredulous at the news he would be attending the coronation as part of the Australian delegation – Cave described himself as “not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter”.But he…

In a study published in iScience, researchers analyzed ancient genetic data to show that some modern Alaska Natives still live almost exactly where their ancestors did 3,000 years ago. The researchers studied the genome of a 3,000-year-old female individual and found that she is most closely related to Alaska Natives living in the area today. This discovery strengthens the idea that genetic continuity in Southeast Alaska has continued for thousands of years, shedding light on human migration routes, mixtures among people…