[nickcarraway]

ping

[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!

[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...

[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.

[frankiep]

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

[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.

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks for the Ping

[GreenHornet]

Prior to this discovery, the oldest known rock art was an 11,000 year old black-light poster.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nick. Have list, will ping it.

[SunkenCiv]

related topics:

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Britain And France In Dispute Over Cave Art
The Telegraph (UK) | 10-16-2003 | Philip Delves
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1002398/posts

Dancing Girls And The Merry Magdalenian (13,000 Y.O. Painting, UK)
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Unprecedented Ice Age Cave Art Discovered In UK
National Geographic | 8-18-2004 | John Pickrell
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Were Cavemen Painting For Their Gods?
The Telegraph (UK) | 2-23-2005
Posted on 03/06/2005 3:20:58 PM PST by blam
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[RJL]

Creswell Crags, the forerunner of Cogswell Cogs, George Jetson and Spacely Sprockets' arch competitor...

/Couldn't resist.

[SunkenCiv]

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