AnirudhaThe Question?
All these beautiful caves were created by early humans and even we agree with that fact. But the question was if all these paintings were the creation of these early humans then who created these paintings discovered recently? The problem was that the dates to which these paintings contradicted with the fact that the humans weren’t present in this area during that time. Then who made these? They found out soon.
What Do We Know?
If you look at the history of Spain, you’ll see that the Iberian Peninsula was first inhabited by in-process evolving human around 32,000 years ago. And the cave paintings go back to 115,000 years. So do you get the situation these scientists were in? The date wasn’t matching and that lead to several problems. Then the team decided to have a test to be sure about the date of the cave paintings. And the test created more problems.
The Age Problems
The dates weren’t matching between the paintings and the early human’s existence and to be sure, the team decided to scrape away some of the samples of the flowstones they found in the caves. But there was a problem with the samples too, usually what happens that the scientists need big pieces to find enough and uranium and thorium so that they can measure the age and the flowstones of these caves were extremely small. But what was coming next, the team wasn’t prepared for it.
The Results
The flowstones the team collected from the caves were sent to the lab so that they can know for sure about the age of these cave paintings. Until now, the age was just theoretical which was believed to be between 115,000 years and 65,000 years. But when the results came out they were shocked, because their assumptions were right about the age of the cave paintings which proved that they were created before the modern humans arrived in Europe. But the revelations about human theory changed everything…
New Revelations In Human Theory
Talking about the link as we said above, so were you able to find it out? If yes, then good job, but if you weren’t then don’t worry even it was hard for us. After reading everything you might be able to make that some of the paintings are quite old like 35,000 years old. But what you missed one thing that the oldest paintings were painted with bat waste, remember? With time the human intelligence grew and they started painting with colors. But the question is from where did they learn all that? Did they saw somebody else doing the paintings with color? or it was all evolution as scientists say. Let’s find out…
The Precious Find
The discovery made in Spain dates back to shocking 65,000 years. The problem is that by that time humans didn’t walk on this planet. Then how come we have these paintings which are amazingly pretty old compared to all those cave paintings you learned about. The scientists say, the Homo sapiens traveled a long distance from Africa to Europe and finally settling there around 45,000 years ago. But still, that doesn’t solve the question of these paintings being 65,000 years old because still there is a 20,000 years gap which needs to be filled. Finally, we have the answers to this mystery.