New Dating Puts Cave Art in the Age of Neanderthals
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 1:42 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/scien ... wanted=all
Stone age artists were painting red disks, handprints, clublike symbols and geometric patterns on European cave walls long before previously thought, in some cases 10,000 years earlier, scientists reported on Thursday after completing more reliable dating tests at prominent sites in northwestern Spain.
And later-
That makes it the earliest cave art found so far in Europe, perhaps 4,000 years older than the paintings at Grotte Chauvet in France.
Stone age artists were painting red disks, handprints, clublike symbols and geometric patterns on European cave walls long before previously thought, in some cases 10,000 years earlier, scientists reported on Thursday after completing more reliable dating tests at prominent sites in northwestern Spain.
And later-
That makes it the earliest cave art found so far in Europe, perhaps 4,000 years older than the paintings at Grotte Chauvet in France.