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British archaeologist finds cave paintings at 100 new African sites
Guardian UK ^
| Sept 17, 2010
| Dalya Alberge
Posted on 09/18/2010 2:55:15 AM PDT by Islander7
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Striking prehistoric rock art created up to 5,000 years ago has been discovered at almost 100 sites in Somaliland on the Gulf of Aden in eastern Africa.
A local team headed by Dr Sada Mire of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL) made the finds which included a man on horseback, painted around 4,000 years ago one of the earliest known depictions of a mounted hunter.
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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: africa; archaeology; godsgravesglyphs; prehistoric
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Dhambalin, about 40 miles from the Red Sea, features horned cattle, sheep and goats painted about 5,000 years ago. The animals have distinctive bands around their backs and bellies, which suggests farming or ritual traditions.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:55:21 AM PDT
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Islander7
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:55:53 AM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Islander7
Well well well...some prehistoric tagger was certainly busy!
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posted on
09/18/2010 3:00:46 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: Tainan
LOL! Makes you wonder why no prehistoric cans of spray paint haven’t been found.
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posted on
09/18/2010 3:11:42 AM PDT
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Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/18/2010 3:13:14 AM PDT
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Pontiac
To: Islander7
almost 100 sites in Somaliland
painted around 4,000 years ago one of the earliest known depictions of a mounted hunter
the quality of the paintings
extraordinarily well-preserved rock art
Other paintings are more mysterious like the 2,000-year-old colourful images of the full moon I can believe it.
Pardon me if this all seems too good to be true.
Fraud in archeology is certainly nothing new. This many new discoveries by one researcher in a short time with new never before seen depictions of animals and hunters, extraordinarily well preserved.
If it is too good to be true; it probably is not true.
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posted on
09/18/2010 3:22:32 AM PDT
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Pontiac
To: Islander7
To: Roscoe Karns
It’s just an old blackboard. Kids just drew on the board back then because papyrus was hard to come by and it was hard to carry rocks home. It was even harder putting them on the refrigerator,
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posted on
09/18/2010 3:53:20 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: Roscoe Karns
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posted on
09/18/2010 3:58:23 AM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
To: Roscoe Karns; Islander7
HAHAHA!
Dang kids. Graffiti. It's ageless.
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posted on
09/18/2010 4:21:52 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: Pontiac
You do know who that man on horseback is, right?
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posted on
09/18/2010 4:29:50 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Pontiac
Hmm . . . I had not considered that. If you are wrong it is a great discovery, if you are right, it is a great movie plot.
See! It’s a win win.
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posted on
09/18/2010 4:41:29 AM PDT
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Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Roscoe Karns
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posted on
09/18/2010 4:42:28 AM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Pontiac
#6, I don’t know why, Pontiac, but the first thing that I thought about this was “Yeah, right...”
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posted on
09/18/2010 4:56:02 AM PDT
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Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Roscoe Karns
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posted on
09/18/2010 4:56:27 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Islander7
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/chode6/chode2.gif)
that survived 5000 years of sun, rain and wind driven sand... please
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posted on
09/18/2010 5:44:28 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Islander7; Pontiac; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
09/18/2010 6:45:59 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: muawiyah
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posted on
09/18/2010 7:03:39 AM PDT
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Pontiac
To: muawiyah
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posted on
09/18/2010 7:36:03 AM PDT
by
TaMoDee
To: Pontiac
Well, Somaliland has been closed to outsiders, and still is closed to outsiders.
For some reason archaeologists from Western Universities are adverse to threat of decapitation in their quest to discover previously undocumented ancient sites.
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