What's Wrong With This Article?

IOL ^ | 10-30-2002 | AP

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Whats wrong with this article/picture?

Ancient art: A 40,000-year-old white silica sandstone cave painting has been discovered in the Banda district, 800km southeast of New Delhi, India. The painting shows cavemen hunting in the Paleolithic age. Photo: AP

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Does anyone know how to do a search on AP and find the original article? (please do)

[dasboot]

I think the ATF agent with the M16 and sunglasses [in front of the horse] might be suspicious?

[Mike Darancette]

Riding a horse???

[Little Bill]

The guy must have recieved his education at a government school in Massachusetts.

[muawiyah]

Somebody's going to come in here and tell us that men were not riding horses as early as 40,000 years ago.

But, of course, this picture is clearly that of a hunter who has lept on top of a giraffe and is preparing to slaughter it!

No horses here!

[gcruse]

It looks like the Silica Rockettes, paleolithic
version of the famous New York group, doing
high kicks.

[VadeRetro]

For sure, the earliest known horseback rider if the dating is accurate. I have me doubts, too.

[CruisinAround]

1.) Recorded history didn't begin 40,000 years ago.

2.) Sandstone is layered sediments, that looks more like granite.

3.) Riding animals weren't domesticated that long ago.

4.) Tools of hunting weren't used 40,000 years ago.

5.) Those guys were extremely well hung. I'm jealous.

[Mike Darancette]

No horses here!

Using a Bridle?

[genefromjersey]

If tools of hunting weren't used 40,000 years ago, how did that wooley mammoth wind up with an atlatl spear point -complete with flaking tool marks - wedged between its verterbrae ?

[Texas_Jarhead]

are they wearing clothing of some kind?

[CruisinAround]

Timeline please. Wooley mammoths still lived up until 10-15000 years ago, but I have seen no evidence of intelligent and social hunters living 40000 years ago. Perhaps you may enlighten me with some Neanderthal insight into this social hunting party, especially one located in India. I may need to rewrite some textbooks.

[Bahbah]

It would be great to see a clearer picture of this, and no, not because of your number 5. LOL.

[muawiyah]

Look, guys, don't you remember Newt Gingrich's story about the men out hunting giraffes? That is not a horse - and that's not a bridle. The man is poking a spear through the animal's neck.

's truth!

[RightWhale]

China is digging up some remarkably old artifacts. India is feeling the pressure to find even older ones. High-marking contest.

[Hunble]

Well, that grey man standing to the left of the horse is rather proud of his "third leg."

[ruoflaw]

everything would seem wrong for the Paleolithic period... it is the earliest period of the stone age...a time when prehistoric man was just using rough or chipped stone implements...according to scientists and historians... Maybe the article gave the wrong date...or Eureka!

[blam]

"Maybe the article gave the wrong date...or Eureka!"

I thought they may have meant 4,000 years ago. Now, if that were so, this would not be a news worthy story, huh?

[Jabba the Nutt]

"Those guys were extremely well hung. I'm jealous."

I'm not.;^)

[HangThemHigh]

Maybe it's the sandstone that is 40k years old, not the painting. Hmmm? This doesn't say how the dating was done.