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Cave paintings more than 20,000 years old found in Deba (Gipuzkoa)

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« on: October 19, 2009, 02:05:55 am »

"Little visual impact"

García Díez insisted that, although the images, discovered in August, do not have "much visual impact", their importance lies in the fact that the "paired fragments" - "very rare in cave art" - are binding proof that they were painted in the Upper Paleolithic age and, more specifically, during the Solutrean era, of which they are typical.

http://www.eitb.com/news/technology/detail/263003/cave-paintings-more-than-20000-years-old-found-in-deba-gipuzkoa/

In his judgement, these "paired fragments" can be explained by means of Ethnography, or the study of human societies, which would reveal that many primitive groups of the age still used their fingers to paint with during rituals in which they attempted to contact supernatural and transcendent forces.

The director of the dig, José Antonio Mujika, who began studying Astigarraga in 2005, also indicated that inside the cave they had found bones placed in crevices and a small throwing dart hidden among stones.
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