Incredible 64,000-year-old discovery in ancient cave STUNS experts
THE world’s oldest cave paintings have been found in what has been described as a “major breakthrough†in understanding evolution.
By Charlotte Ikonen / Published 24th February 2018
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The cave art – which dates back 64,000 years – is too old to have been made by modern humans, experts have claimed.
The art was found deep inside three separate caverns in Spain some 700km apart.
Archaeologist and joint lead researcher Dr Chris Standish, from the University of Southampton, said: “Our results show that the paintings we dated are, by far, the oldest known cave art in the world, and were created at least 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa – therefore they must have been painted by Neanderthals.â€
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