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Parallel lines are a common feature in modern humans' early systems for recording numerical information.
More than nine approximately parallel notches made with a different stone tool are present on another artifact found at a site in western France.
It would have taken careful effort to make evenly spaced lines on bone with the stone tools typically used by Neanderthals.
Decorative art discovered at another Neanderthal site in western France primarily features patterns of unevenly spaced parallel lines.