Millennia old rock paintings found in rain forest...

[glazbagun]

Presumed to be over 12000 years old, they contain images of animals long extinct in the Americas and are so numerpus it will require "generations" of study.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/si...

Amazing that suck things are still to be found. I wonder how they survived weathering?

[Seattaken]

glazbagun said:

..... I wonder how they survived weathering?

Quite, not sure I believe it particularly as the painting material was still lying around "We also found pieces of ochre that they scraped to make them" after 12,500 years

[garagewidow]

What with this and a riveted monolith in Utah i'm getting properly concerned now.

[Astacus]

Seattaken said:

Quite, not sure I believe it particularly as the painting material was still lying around "We also found pieces of ochre that they scraped to make them" after 12,500 years

Sad. This is a wonderful thing. 12000 year old people speaking to the present. Leave Mr internet sceptic at home.

[crofty1984]

Astacus said:

Seattaken said:

Quite, not sure I believe it particularly as the painting material was still lying around "We also found pieces of ochre that they scraped to make them" after 12,500 years

Sad. This is a wonderful thing. 12000 year old people speaking to the present. Leave Mr internet sceptic at home.

EXACTLY! -That's why it must be fake. 12,000 years to send a message to us? It's ridiculous, why didn't they just send an email? It would be so much quicker. Hell, even a telegram would have done the job.

[Astacus]

crofty1984 said:

EXACTLY! -That's why it must be fake. 12,000 years to send a message to us? It's ridiculous, why didn't they just send an email? It would be so much quicker. Hell, even a telegram would have done the job.

with my internet connectivity, i would stick to the ocre

[Murph7355]

Astacus said:

Seattaken said:

Quite, not sure I believe it particularly as the painting material was still lying around "We also found pieces of ochre that they scraped to make them" after 12,500 years

Sad. This is a wonderful thing. 12000 year old people speaking to the present. Leave Mr internet sceptic at home.

Not a single cock n balls.

No way were those painted by man.

[Eric Mc]

Old Rock Paintings - I was expecting a painting of -

[king arthur]

Eric Mc said:

Old Rock Paintings - I was expecting a painting of -

No. I don't think the Quo had been going quite that long.

[Ntv]

glazbagun said:

Presumed to be over 12000 years old, they contain images of animals long extinct in the Americas and are so numerpus it will require "generations" of study.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/si...

Amazing that suck things are still to be found. I wonder how they survived weathering?

They used Dulux Weathershield