Ancient European Culture Known For Spectacular Cave Paintings Traced to Even Older Middle Eastern Culture
By Kastalia Medrano On 12/28/17 at 12:25 PM
Archaeologists have discovered that prehistoric tools and artwork from western Europe owe their existence to an even earlier culture in the Middle East. Carbon dating of a cave in Israel supports a theory that the Ahmarian culture of the Levant predated the Aurignacian culture of Europe by thousands of years, according to Haaretz.
The Ahmarian and Aurignacian cultures were the first two modern human cultures, according to Haaretz. They did coexist, but it’s been unclear if one was borne from the other. Now, archaeologists have dated the Ahmarian-inhabited Manot Cave, in northern Israel near the Lebanon border, which shows that Ahmarians lived in the region around 42,000 to 46,000 years ago—earlier than Aurignacians are known to exist.
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-european-culture-spectacular-cave-painting-middle-east-762051?piano_t=1
