Oldest rock art in Britain: 12,800 years

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 22/04/2005 | Roger Highfield, Science Editor

[nickcarraway]

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[The Electrician]

Oldest rock art in Britain: 12,800 years

Wow, that's pretty old for rock art. Wonder what the age of the oldest rock music in Britain is...

[Route101]

Sorry...thought you were talking about the Rolling Stones.....

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Engravings of women

Prehistoric porn?

[Fawnn]

Dating rock art is difficult,...

Flowers. Chocolate. Open the car door. Nice dinner. What's so difficult about that? ;)

[GeekDejure]

engravings of women and extinct creatures at Creswell Crags are more than 12,800 years old
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Oops! Another whack at the 6,000 year old Earth belief !!! ;-))

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I thought THIS was the oldest rock art in Britain!

[Route101]

Now that's prehistoric!....no satisfaction there!

[Route101]

Dead man walking maybe?

[Drew68]

I thought THIS was the oldest rock art in Britain!

And you just know he'll outlive them all!

[Khurkris]

"...engravings were found on the walls and ceiling depicting animals such as the European Bison, now extinct in Britain, female dancers or birds - depending on the view of the archaeologist - and intimate female body parts."

Oldest British cave art and its the work of a horny cave dude grafittiist. Porno cave tagger...lol.

Ogg like women...Ogg draw dirty picture...

[Drew68]

Oops! Another whack at the 6,000 year old Earth belief !!! ;-))

They'll be here soon to enlighten us, I'm sure.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Hard evidence that the engravings of women and extinct creatures at Creswell Crags are more than 12,800 years old is published today.

The archaelogists point to this engraving as proof that the find is at least 12,800 years old.

[Route101]

Madeline Albright stars in the remake of weekend at Bernies......

[GeekDejure]

The archaelogists point to this engraving as proof that the find is at least 12,800 years old.

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It would be nice if all FReeperes would do a thorough investigation prior to posting the pic of this very same ancient engraving.

My research had shown that this creature is actually 24,000 years old, and that it was responsible for developing the first journalistic service, carving into stone the name of said service:

FOCK SNOOZE !!! ;-))

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[TalBlack]

"Oops! Another whack at the 6,000 year old Earth belief !!! ;-))"

Whacks against the Word of God are good things, they test the faith of believers. If there is a God and he said 'this is so' then it is so irrespective of all the terrifying and awesome 'whacks' against it.

[frankiep]

Bush's fault, with the collaboration of Pope Benedict XVI.

[eno_]

Natch. And you WILL find freepers who will tell you all those cave man souls are burning in hell because of it.

[blam]

This story has always fascinated me.

DNA sample links 2 men, 9,000 years apart

July 31, 1997
Web posted at: 3:40 p.m. EDT (1940 GMT)

CHEDDAR, England (CNN) -- Adrian Targett is a regular guy in Cheddar, a schoolteacher. His extended family is another matter -- real cavemen, some of them.

Or at least, thousands of years ago they were. Targett learned recently that he is the direct descendant of a man who lived 9,000 years ago, and whose bones were found at the turn of the century in Cheddar's famous caves. Scientists compared the DNA from one of Cheddar Man's molars to that of scrapings taken from the mouths of 20 local Cheddarites, and Targett was a match.