Cave Drawings Reportedly 25,000 Years Old

Associated Press ^ | February 5, 2006 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

PARIS -- Cave drawings thought to be older than those in the famed caves of Lascaux have been discovered in a grotto in western France, officials from the Charente region said Sunday.

A first analysis by officials from the office of cultural affairs suggests the drawings were made some 25,000 years ago, Henri de Marcellus, mayor of the town of Vilhonneur where the cave is located, told France-Info radio.

He said, however, that the date could only be confirmed by further investigations.

Cavers exploring a part of a grotto in the Vilhonneur forest made the discovery in December, the local newspaper Charente Libre reported Saturday.

News was withheld until a first investigation could be carried out, local officials said on French radio.

"If this first expertise is confirmed, the paintings discovered here (change) scientific findings date to Lascaux and Altamira in Spain," Michel Boutant, head of the local government, said on France-Info radio.

The famed Lascaux Cave in Montignac, in the Dordogne region of southwest France, has long been considered one of the finest examples of cave paintings. The art dates back 13,000 years, like those in Altamira, in northwest Spain.

However, the Chauvet cave, discovered in the mid-1990s in southeast France, features some 300 examples of Paleolithic animal art dating back in some cases 31,000 years.

[LexBaird]

Art hit the ground running. There appear to be no amateur, tenative, halting steps ~ there was no art, and then there was.

Nah. It's just that the stone age refrigerators they were stuck to have long since decayed away.

[Barset]

I mean no disrespect but your post reads like a Marxist version of Art History 101. Feudalism was not "destroyed" by the Black Death alone, nor was the creative impulse controlled by the imperatives of hierarchy, big guys- little guys or of politics. Totalitarianism, the state ownership of even a man's most fleeting thoughts, is a twentieth century historical reality.

[Barset]

Thanks for posting the deer stones. I'm going to google it. It looks like the black stone in space, the way it's placed in the ground.

[muawiyah]

Classically speaking, the highly structured class system in Europe that developed during the Dark Ages was liberalized during the Black Plague.

Workmen became hard to get for example.

This happened. Now if Marx and Engels used this event as a justification for their theory, that's just tough bananas. There were, during the same period, plenty of other events to disprove their theory.

[Inyo-Mono]

They were still here 12-13,000 years ago (some suspect they're still here)...they have been identified as Homo-Erectus...

I suspect that they are.

[Ma3lst0rm]

lmbo great follow on!

[Frwy]

If they drew Mohammed, the caves are going to be destroyed.

Oh goody, this would mean Osama wouldn't have his hiding place anymore. Then we could just shoot all Muzzies over 6' tall - job done.

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