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2025-03-26 Science & Technology

Ancient sketches from 200,000 years ago found inside cave

[FoxNews] Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain, have unearthed sketches believed to be 200,000 years old.

The evacuation was led by the Municipality of Marbella’s Department of Culture, Education, and Historical Heritage, which found a stone block with etchings, according to a press release.

"The significance of this discovery is twofold: on the one hand, it confirms the presence of settlers in Marbella during the Early Middle Paleolithic, a period little known in Spain and unprecedented in the province of Malaga," the release says.

"Furthermore, it provides this unique stone, which contains a set of graphic representations of human origin that could be 100,000 years older than the oldest cave art depictions," it continued.

The stone was unearthed at the Coto Correa site in Las Chapas and is known for housing the oldest remains in the city.

A study is being conducted by the Department of Culture to confirm the age of the stone and its origin. .

"The techniques applied for absolute dating consist of quartz analysis of different sediment samples, which will allow for a precise chronology of the samples," says the press release.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11159 views ] Top

#1 So curious ... I see 4 quadrants of the unit circle, an equilateral triangle in q1 forming an bound isosceles triangle with the axes, and a 45 deg ray in q4.
If that ray represents a Z axis then perhaps we have a map.

Confirmation bias.

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-25 16:31|| 2025-03-25 16:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Sketches made by a Piltdown man?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-03-26 01:36|| 2025-03-26 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Mysterious pyramid, ancient bronze coins discovered by archaeologists

"What we have here is one of the richest and most intriguing archaeological excavations ever found in the Judean Desert"

More rocks.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-26 07:24|| 2025-03-26 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 'Tis ogham the aliens taught 'em
That points to the stuff that they sought. Um...
"For water and game,
Mating, fortune and fame,
Follow arrow to... uggh... Foggy Bottom."

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-03-26 08:31|| 2025-03-26 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you for your contribution.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-26 09:05|| 2025-03-26 09:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry. I really don't see much in that so-called sketch. I think that calling it a sketch is kinda sketchy.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-03-26 11:39|| 2025-03-26 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 One sees what they expect to see.

These Ancient Stone Etchings Could Be an Extremely Early Form of Animation

Consider, vision has changed in 20,000 years.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-26 14:59|| 2025-03-26 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 This Ancient Scratch May Be One of Humanity's Oldest Rock Symbols

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-26 15:01|| 2025-03-26 15:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Autographed by Nancy Pelosi?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-03-26 18:22|| 2025-03-26 18:22|| Front Page Top

#10 They look like grooves for sharpening or smoothing to be.

Posted by Glolutch Tingle1702 2025-03-26 18:56|| 2025-03-26 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Keith Richards: "Early Album Artwork concepts"

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-26 19:03|| 2025-03-26 19:03|| Front Page Top

#12 "These Ancient Stone Etchings Could Be an Extremely Early Form of Animation"

They could flip the stone tablets really fast back in the day, but then they cast the yetis to the fringes of civilization and animation was set back several thousand years.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-03-26 21:54|| 2025-03-26 21:54|| Front Page Top

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