Cave Art Predates By 20,000 Years

[malagabob]

Reported in English language papers.Cave paintings, some in Andalucia Spain have been linked to Neanderthal man, have been found to predate the arrival of Homo Sapiens by 20,000 years. The paintings were dated by a non destructive dating process.

[melv16]

Have you ever been to Stoke?:-)

[pastafreak]

Fascinating...

Here's a link...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/22/neanderthals-not-humans-were-first-artists-on-earth-experts-claim

[emmie]

maybe that info was gleaned from the new BBC2 Civilisations programme last week, as Simon Sharma covered that exact topic, amongst many others, equally interesting.

[Peter Pedant]

Raymond Dart who started this all off
by describing australopithecus 1923
was asked why he hadnt described that austrolop and homo co-existed -
they had gone back to his strata and checked
( R D ) said - because we thought no one would believe us.

[Jahulaye]

Maybe a link op?