Info Of Spanish Researchers Let On 30,000 Year-Old Cave Paintings

Cave drawings at Altamira.Museo de Altamira/D. Rodríguez

Researchers bring discovered iv novel sets of cave paintings inwards Cantabria, northern Spain, the oldest of which was made well-nigh 30,000 years agone – making it ane of the earliest known examples of prehistoric fine art inwards the world.

The squad from the Museum of Prehistory of Cantabria, led past times Castilian prehistorian Roberto Ontañón, used cutting-edge imaging techniques to position the drawings.

Twenty years ago, a speleologist – a scientist who studies caves – had informed archaeologists of the possible being of ancient paintings inwards diverse stone cavities inwards Cantabria. However, the techniques available at the fourth dimension were non sufficient to confirm the being of the art.

The paintings, similar much prehistoric artwork, had degraded in addition to then much over fourth dimension that they were hard to position amongst the naked eye. To overcome this, Ontañón in addition to his squad used a 3D Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation scanning method, which reproduced the artwork on a computer.

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