Image Credit : Bournemouth University
Posted on 09/18/2021 9:20:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A multi-national team of researchers from Bournemouth University and Guangzhou University has found five handprints and five footprints in Quesang, on the Tibetan Plateau, dating from 169,000-226,000 years ago, in the middle of an Ice Age.
The prints were preserved in freshwater limestone deposited around a hot spring – known as travertine. Judging by the size and height of the prints, the analysis suggests that they were carefully placed by children around the age of seven to twelve years of age.
Dating of the prints was conducted using a radiometric method based on the decay of uranium found in the travertine, providing evidence for the earliest hominin occupation on the Tibetan Plateau.
Matthew Bennett, Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at Bournemouth University said, “The prints were not left by normal walking and seem likely to have been deliberately left in what could be the earliest ever example of immobile, or parietal, art that we’ve found to date.”
Bennett added: “You could just imagine these children playing in the mud by a hot spring, placing their hands and feet carefully, where they have been preserved for thousands of years for us to find, like a child might do in cement today. This mud-like clay hardened and turned to travertine, which has kept these playful hand and footprints frozen in time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2021-09-15/oldest-example-immobile-art-found-tibet
https://www.britannica.com/event/Paleolithic-Period
Picture of early art....
Wait a minute. A guy I know shelled out $2 million for that exact same Hunter Biden art. Now it’s exposed as a forgery? By kids? He’s gonna be mad.
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Looks like a pre-Chinaman had been attacked by a Saber-Toothed Tiger and was slowly clawing his way back to safety. Seems to be missing his right foot.
“ like a child might do in cement today”
My first thought. We have ‘art’ everywhere. I’ve been discovering for decades.
Denisovans?
He won’t be mad, he already got the money.
In the middle of “an” ice age? You mean there was more than one?
From the standpoint of the uniformitarian view, there have been five — the current one has lasted 2.6 million years so far, during which time the continental shelves have been dry land most of that time. We’ve been in a warmer period for the past 8 to 12 thousand years.
[snip] Scientists have recorded five significant ice ages throughout the Earth’s history: the Huronian (2.4-2.1 billion years ago), Cryogenian (850-635 million years ago), Andean-Saharan (460-430 mya), Karoo (360-260 mya) and Quaternary (2.6 mya-present). [/snip]
https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/ice-age
We think alike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
It may be more likely that it’s no one we know (yet), but either Erectus, Neandertal, or Denisovan.
Chesterton’s Everlasting Man, Chapter I, nails this.
So sometime in the future, an archeologist is going to come across a certain section of sidewalk ...
Anatomically correct humans have been traced back 300,000 years using mDNA.
You mean “anatomically modern”—but with archaic features.
And no modern humans have been found on the Tibetan plateau until MUCH later! The Denisovans were apparently the first on the Tibetan plateau!
And modern humans in Tibet have a Denisovan-derived gene that helps them survive there!!!!
You mean “anatomically modern” - but with archaic features.
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No I mean what I wrote - they had the same mDNA and are known to be anatomically correct - they was us. There are many links out there if that’s what you need, just go look.
What’s found as opposed to what was there is a matter of chance as to what gets preserved or fossilized, and there is no ‘proof that Denisovans were there first ; absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Yeah many peoples have genes that seem to have come from Denisovans (cold and altitude genes), but again, the samples are a few small bones and one or two teeth ; that’s a lot to hang major suppositions on.
“You could just imagine these children playing in the mud by a hot spring, placing their hands and feet carefully...”
Or not.
He’s really trying to call it “art”, isn’t he?
10% for the big guy...
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