The etched bones were found at the Lingjing dig site in China's Henan Province, where archaic hominins - believed likely to be Denisovans - lived between around 125,000-105,000 years ago.
Two etched bone fragments dating back 100,000 years could be examples of art made by our ancient relatives, the Denisovans, experts suggest.
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