{"id":110624,"date":"2025-11-17T11:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/?p=110624"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:16:20","slug":"los-neandertales-pintaban-en-las-cuevas-miles-de-anos-antes-que-nosotros-segun-un-estudio-el-confidencial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/los-neandertales-pintaban-en-las-cuevas-miles-de-anos-antes-que-nosotros-segun-un-estudio-el-confidencial\/","title":{"rendered":"Los neandertales pintaban en las cuevas miles de a\u00f1os antes que nosotros, seg\u00fan un estudio | El Confidencial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#9b51e05e\">El hallazgo demuestra que los neandertales realizaron pinturas rupestres miles de a\u00f1os antes de que llegara el Homo sapiens a Europa y cuestiona que solo nuestra especie fuera capaz de crear arte simb\u00f3lico<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f.elconfidencial.com_original_ffb_1a6_6e0_ffb1a66e0db3a436159e81c6d33e451c-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f.elconfidencial.com_original_ffb_1a6_6e0_ffb1a66e0db3a436159e81c6d33e451c-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f.elconfidencial.com_original_ffb_1a6_6e0_ffb1a66e0db3a436159e81c6d33e451c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f.elconfidencial.com_original_ffb_1a6_6e0_ffb1a66e0db3a436159e81c6d33e451c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/losperiodistas.com.mx\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f.elconfidencial.com_original_ffb_1a6_6e0_ffb1a66e0db3a436159e81c6d33e451c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">La cueva de Maltravieso de C\u00e1ceres. EFE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f2a2e49eb5d273135a6a4a8e8197d24d\"><strong>Por\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/autores\/ada-nuno-2098\/\">A. N.<\/a> \/ El Confidencial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Un<strong>&nbsp;an\u00e1lisis reciente de cuevas en nuestro pa\u00eds&nbsp;<\/strong>ha revelado que los neandertales fueron capaces de producir arte al menos&nbsp;<strong>hace 64.000 a\u00f1os<\/strong>, mucho antes de la presencia documentada de humanos modernos en el continente. El hallazgo, difundido en&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/human-evolution\/the-images-could-be-much-older-analysis-of-rocks-shows-neanderthals-made-art-at-least-64-000-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Live Science<\/a><\/em>, cambia radicalmente la percepci\u00f3n sobre las capacidades cognitivas de esta especie extinta.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El equipo internacional de investigadores, dirigido por el arque\u00f3logo&nbsp;<strong>Paul Pettitt,<\/strong>&nbsp;estudi\u00f3 las&nbsp;<strong>formaciones de calcita<\/strong>&nbsp;que cubren los pigmentos en tres cuevas de la Pen\u00ednsula Ib\u00e9rica: La Pasiega (<strong>Cantabria<\/strong>), Maltravieso (<strong>C\u00e1ceres<\/strong>) y Ardales&nbsp;<strong>(M\u00e1laga<\/strong>). Gracias al m\u00e9todo de&nbsp;<strong>dataci\u00f3n por uranio-torio<\/strong>, se determin\u00f3 que las capas minerales que se hab\u00edan formado sobre las pinturas ten\u00edan una<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/mundo\/2022-10-30\/asi-se-utilizan-la-arqueologia-y-la-historia-como-arma-de-conquista-en-palestina_3514599\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;antig\u00fcedad m\u00ednima<\/a>&nbsp;de 64.000 a\u00f1os. Esto significa algo claro: que los dibujos fueron realizados antes de esa fecha, cuando los \u00fanicos habitantes de la regi\u00f3n eran neandertales.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otro ejemplo, un poco m\u00e1s alejado geogr\u00e1ficamente de nosotros: en la<strong>&nbsp;Cueva de La Roche-Cotard<\/strong>, en el valle del Loira (Francia), se han hallado adem\u00e1s&nbsp;<strong>trazos realizados con los dedos<\/strong>&nbsp;sobre sedimentos blandos, sellados por una capa natural que los preserv\u00f3 durante m\u00e1s de 50.000 a\u00f1os. Los investigadores sostienen que estas marcas fueron realizadas tambi\u00e9n por neandertales y refuerzan la hip\u00f3tesis de que esta especie ten\u00eda una capacidad cognitiva m\u00e1s compleja de lo que se cre\u00eda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Las pruebas refuerzan la hip\u00f3tesis de que esta especie ten\u00eda una capacidad cognitiva m\u00e1s compleja de lo que se cre\u00eda&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El hallazgo se suma a un creciente cuerpo de pruebas que cuestionan la vieja imagen estereotipada del neandertal como un ser tosco y carente de imaginaci\u00f3n. Si realmente fueron los autores de estas pinturas, eso implicar\u00eda que los<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/cultura\/2025-11-08\/un-santuario-de-5-000-anos-descubierto-en-irak-nos-conecta-con-las-primeras-ciudades_4240541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;comportamientos simb\u00f3licos<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014la capacidad de atribuir significado y representar ideas\u2014&nbsp;<strong>no surgieron con el&nbsp;<em>Homo sapiens<\/em><\/strong>, sino mucho antes, en un antepasado com\u00fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evidencias dif\u00edciles de refutar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>De cualquier manera, los autores del estudio son cautelosos, pero coinciden en que las evidencias&nbsp;<strong>son dif\u00edciles de refutar.<\/strong>&nbsp;Las fechas obtenidas no dejan margen para atribuir las obras a los humanos modernos, que no habr\u00edan llegado a Europa hasta unos 20.000 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s. Las pinturas, por tanto, fueron realizadas en un momento&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/tecnologia\/ciencia\/2025-11-10\/1933-5200-agujeros-peru-ya-sabemos-que-1qrt_4244873\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">en que los neandertales<\/a>&nbsp;eran los \u00fanicos habitantes del continente.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u00e1s all\u00e1 del debate t\u00e9cnico, el descubrimiento tiene profundas implicaciones sobre c\u00f3mo entendemos la evoluci\u00f3n humana. Los neandertales no solo cazaban, fabricaban herramientas o enterraban a sus muertos: tambi\u00e9n&nbsp;<strong>pensaban en t\u00e9rminos abstractos<\/strong>&nbsp;y buscaban expresar algo m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de lo inmediato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuente: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/cultura\/2025-11-16\/los-neandertales-pintaban-en-las-cuevas-miles-de-anos-antes-que-nosotros-segun-un-estudio_4245386\/\">https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/cultura\/2025-11-16\/los-neandertales-pintaban-en-las-cuevas-miles-de-anos-antes-que-nosotros-segun-un-estudio_4245386\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El hallazgo demuestra que los neandertales realizaron pinturas rupestres miles de a\u00f1os antes de que llegara el Homo sapiens a 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