“I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from that of Upper Palaeolithic people, and that this distinction precluded, for the Neanderthals, both image-making and elaborate burial.” Upper Palaeolithic ArtNeanderthal Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art