Posted on 07/29/2007 10:24:22 PM PDT by blam
Ice Age cave art site preserved
The art was probably made by Ice Age hunter-gatherers
Work to protect and preserve an Ice Age site in Derbyshire has been completed.
The project at the Ice Age cave art centre at Creswell Crags was funded by the East Midlands Development Agency and the county council.
It included building new scree banks to show how the gorge would have looked about 10 to 50,000 years ago.
A county council spokesperson said archaeologists were consulted during the preservation project to ensure the site's natural beauty was not spoiled.
'Unique site'
A £200,000 bridleway, which links up the visitor centre to the caves, was also unveiled.
Councillor Brian Lucas, the council's cabinet member for environmental services said: "We recognise the importance of preserving and enhancing such a unique archaeological site and great care was taken to build a bridleway in keeping with the natural surroundings of the Crags."
The Creswell cave art, near the Nottinghamshire border, was discovered in 2003 and includes 12,000-year-old engravings of bison, horses and birds.
It has been described as one of the most important prehistoric finds in Britain.
Archaeological finds dating back between 10,000 and 50,000 years have also been discovered, including flint and bone tools and carvings - proving that Ice Age hunters visited the site to hunt mammoth and reindeer.
This is the cave system where Cheddar Man was found. He was from the DNA haplogroup U5 which has a high concentration in today's Laplanders. Bryan Sykes says theres an even older Cheddar Man, 23,000 years old from the same caves. My guess is that the LGM got him.
Descendant Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)
Cave reveals 10,000-year-old art
Long Hole, Cheddar Gorge
Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 12:45 GMT 13:45 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4159190.stm
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50,000 years ago? What a bunch of nonsense. Again, 44,000 years off.
Welcome to FR. Is your other name, “Ken Ham”?
I don't know. I found some stuff in the back of the fridge that might be that old.
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I like to think that someday (when and if I ever retire), I may be able to work on one or more sites as a volunteer.
Want ya picture on my wall in Cheddar Gorge?
Say Cheese!
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I cheddar to think how long it took for someone to say that.
hard cheese, old boy!
“50,000 years ago? What a bunch of nonsense. Again, 44,000 years off.”
You might ask God to give you a new caclulator - yours appears to be broke.
“50,000 years ago? What a bunch of nonsense. Again, 44,000 years off.”
You might ask God to give you a new caclulator - yours appears to be broke.
Four total posts so far and half of them to try to tell us the Earth if only 6,000 years old.
I’m still not buyin’ it.
You may brie right.
Is that moose pooping?
Truly, it is art fromages past.
LOL yea. Caveman smut.
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