Crimean Neanderthals made Stone Age crayons from ocher 50,000 years ago
Neanderthals fashioned ocher into crayon-like tools and carved pigment pieces, indicating deliberate symbolic and artistic behavior around 46–47 thousand years ago.
Discovery at Turkey's 'cradle of civilization rewrites human origins
A 12,000-year-old T-shaped pillar at Karahantepe bears the earliest known realistic stone-carved human face, indicating early portraiture and personal identity.