Famous Cave Paintings Might Not Be From 'Humans'
June 15, 2012 - The Panel of Hands in the Cave of El Castillo in Spain. New dating approaches suggest the paintings could have been drawn by Neanderthals, not humans, as previously believed.
The popular paintings on the walls of caves in Europe mark the starting of figurative art and a wonderful leap forward for human culture.
But now a novel method of figuring out the age of some of those cave paintings questions their provenance. Not that they are fakes รข€” only that it could not have been modern day humans who made them.
The first European cave paintings are thought to have been made over 30,000 years ago. Most depict animals and hunters. Some of the eeriest are stencils of human hands, apparently made by blowing a spray of pigment over a hand held up to a wall.
But now scientists are suggesting those are not human hands, at least in some caves in Spain.
The popular paintings on the walls of caves in Europe mark the starting of figurative art and a wonderful leap forward for human culture.
But now a novel method of figuring out the age of some of those cave paintings questions their provenance. Not that they are fakes รข€” only that it could not have been modern day humans who made them.
The first European cave paintings are thought to have been made over 30,000 years ago. Most depict animals and hunters. Some of the eeriest are stencils of human hands, apparently made by blowing a spray of pigment over a hand held up to a wall.
But now scientists are suggesting those are not human hands, at least in some caves in Spain.
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