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A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France ( inhabited 176,000 years ago )
The Atlantic ^ | May 25, 2016 | Ed Yong

Posted on 09/29/2020 3:54:54 PM PDT by Candor7

..............After drilling into the stalagmites and pulling out cylinders of rock, the team could see an obvious transition between two layers. On one side were old minerals that were part of the original stalagmites; on the other were newer layers that had been laid down after the fragments were broken off by the cave’s former users. By measuring uranium levels on either side of the divide, the team could accurately tell when each stalagmite had been snapped off for construction.

Their date? 176,500 years ago, give or take a few millennia.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Reference; Science
KEYWORDS: cave; dating; dumbert41; dumgi; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; stalactites; stalagmite; stalagmites
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To: TigersEye

“Paranoia?” Not quite.


21 posted on 09/29/2020 4:29:12 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Candor7

So easy a cave man can do it.


22 posted on 09/29/2020 4:36:19 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: bandit123
Im not saying it was Alien’s - But it was ALIENS!!!!

For shame, you didn't try for the picture? How much did that guy make on that 'do'?

23 posted on 09/29/2020 4:38:46 PM PDT by SES1066 (2020, VOTE your principles, VOTE your history, VOTE FOR ALL AMERICANS, VOTE colorblind!)
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To: Candor7

The first documented circle jerk?


24 posted on 09/29/2020 4:39:05 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Candor7

For reference...

Per wiki...

The Cave of Altamira (Spanish: Cueva de Altamira) is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric parietal cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago.


25 posted on 09/29/2020 4:53:26 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Fungi

I was trying to be kind about it.


26 posted on 09/29/2020 4:54:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (In all things ... trigger discipline.)
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To: Rurudyne

That or “Wilma!”


27 posted on 09/29/2020 4:56:40 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma)
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To: Candor7

28 posted on 09/29/2020 4:57:00 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Fungi

French wine-aging control is very strict!!!


29 posted on 09/29/2020 4:57:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: frank ballenger

Coors was all they had, it was before beer was discovered.


30 posted on 09/29/2020 4:58:07 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Portland Voted for IT)
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To: Candor7

They found nuclear power and died from radiation poisoning!


31 posted on 09/29/2020 4:58:45 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: moovova

#25. The Cave of Altamira - the site of Picasso’s earliest cubist and abstract art. Worth a fortune!


32 posted on 09/29/2020 5:00:07 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Candor7

and on the wall a framed copy of Obama’s real BC...


33 posted on 09/29/2020 5:02:32 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: frank ballenger; Candor7

“They found my old camp site!”

“The pile of 48 empty Coors cans led the researchers straight to you and your buddies.”


My first trip to Israel was in 1990 (I landed on the day that Iraq invaded Kuwait - lots of flyovers and sonic booms), and on one particular day I left the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. Not 25 feet from the gate was a pit about 8’ x 8’ and maybe 15-20 feet deep, surrounded by a very flimsy fence of mesh. So, of course, I had to peak down there. Coke cans - ancient Coke cans used by my ancestors some 2,000 - 3,000 years ago. Amazing what you find underground, isn’t it!


34 posted on 09/29/2020 5:10:35 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Deaf Smith
stalagtights

It sounds like something prisoners of war would wear instead of lederhosen.
35 posted on 09/29/2020 5:10:46 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild

Hit your head too many times on stalacties, you will break them off.


36 posted on 09/29/2020 5:20:45 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: Ancesthntr

Good story.

Fellow Israel Supporter,
F B


37 posted on 09/29/2020 5:20:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: MRadtke

Some things don’t change.


38 posted on 09/29/2020 5:34:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SES1066

I tried like 6 times on preview to make the pic of big hair pop up and failed, even reviewed how to do it with the img src stuff.
Copied and pasted then inserted my url but to no avail.

back to the html sand box for me. It appears that I am not smarter than a fifth grader.


39 posted on 09/29/2020 5:35:09 PM PDT by bandit123 (This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through)
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To: Dogbert41

It wasn’t carbon dating.


40 posted on 09/29/2020 5:38:00 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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