Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. dirk_hoffmann@eva.mpg.de.
• ² Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ³ Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. A.W.Pike@soton.ac.uk.
• ⁴ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Isabel I, Burgos, Spain.
• ⁵ Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK.
• ⁶ Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy.
• ⁷ Departament de Prehistòria i d'Arqueologia, Universitat de València, València, Spain.
• ⁸ Área de Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
• ⁹ Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ¹⁰ Prehistory Section, University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹¹ Centro de la Prehistoria/Cueva de Ardales, Ardales, Málaga, Spain.
• ¹² Quaternary-Prehistory Research Group, I-PAT Research Group, D.G. Bibliotecas, Museos y Patrimonio Cultural, Junta de Extremadura, Spain.
• ¹³ CNRS, Roc des Monges, St Sozy, France.
• ¹⁴ Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Filosofia, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain.
• ¹⁵ Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Prehistory, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Departament d'Història i Arqueologia (SERP), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. joao.zilhao@ub.edu.
• ¹⁸ Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain. joao.zilhao@ub.edu.
• ¹⁹ Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa (UNIARQ), Faculdade de Letras, Lisbon, Portugal. joao.zilhao@ub.edu.