Posted on 06/20/2023 3:45:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two millennia or so ago, sailing ships, grazing animals, and people—hunting, gathering, dancing—were carved into cave walls, then obscured, slowly, by layers of moss. Ultimately, they were lost to time.
Or lost until last month, when a team of researchers surveying the western Swedish province of Bohuslän uncovered the ancient artwork. The carvings, or petroglyphs, were made around 2,700 years ago, according to the Foundation for Documentation of Bohuslän’s Rock Carvings. They measure around three-meters high and decorate a steep rock face that once formed the edge of an island before sea levels dropped around 40 feet over several centuries.
The team has since speculated that the artists reached the rock by boat, or constructed a sort of scaffolding over ice. (The researchers used scaffolding themselves to inspect the artworks.) The deep carvings were made by striking stones against the granite rock to reveal a brilliant white underlayer that would have been visible for several miles.
“What makes the petroglyphs completely unique is that they are located three meters above today’s ground surface,” the foundation wrote in a statement. “The motifs lie on an even line that follows the height of the sea surface from approximately 700 to 800 BCE. The motifs are also stylistically consistent with this time period.”
That’s not really that long ago.
Looks about as primitive as cave people
from the article
“a steep rock face that once formed the edge of an island before sea levels dropped around 40 feet over several centuries.”
today some say it will be the end of the world if the water levels rise a few inches
Hands Up Don’t Shoot!
or
Massage Parlor advertising.
Agreed. I believe 2,700 years ago would be about the time of the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament.
It looks fake to me. Too clean. Too uniform. Seems like it was painted with a brush and white gesso.
“Kilroy was here.”
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Something about it just doesn’t look right. It could have been done 200 years ago...if not....why not...
It says they chipped the top surface of the rock...and the white is what is underneath. You’d have a hard time to date the chipping...I’d say...it’s a pure guess to fit their “conclusions”.
They had giraffes in Sweden?
I admit it, I did it last week. I was trying to show how big the fish was that got away and then my dog photobombed me. 🤣🤣🤣
This is total nonsense. Where do they find the nutjobs who make these fakes up?—Georgio Tsoukalos.
RE: They had giraffes in Sweden?
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One drawback of defending gradual Darwinian evolution is the existence of the giraffe who could reach the tall tree leaves without rivals. But then there should be skeletons of the less successful earlier versions with short necks, medium necks, longer necks and the living tall giraffes. There aren’t. Just the tall ones.
This was, I think, based on the now out of favor “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.”
I’m not rooting for any sides in all of this. Just posting.
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I believe they said the carvings had been cover by moss for a very long time, which would reduce the subsequent weathering significantly.
“Seems like it was painted with a brush and white gesso.”
It’s been highlighted so you can see the figures.
I see the Loch Ness monster and a Bigfoot family.
It’s clearly a brontosaurus. They used it for transportation as they hadn’t invented electric vehicles yet.
All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.
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