Tag: engravings

Paleolithic people stood before the cave wall, its chalky, smooth rock appealing like a blank canvas, more than 57,000 years ago. Their motives and ideas will always remain unknown. But these imaginative cave-dwellers purposefully created long-lasting lines and dots that would stay concealed beneath the French countryside for tens of thousands of years by running their fingers across the rock and pressing them into the cave wall. Read More: Neanderthal art Scientists have recently found that the earliest known examples of Neanderthal cave carvings are these stunning patterns. In order to verify that these remarkable patterns are the deliberate, well-organized works of human hands, the authors of a research published on Wednesday in PLOS One examined, mapped, and 3D modeled these m...

Paleolithic people stood before the cave wall, its chalky, smooth rock appealing like a blank canvas, more than 57,000 years ago. Their motives and ideas will always remain unknown. But these imaginative cave-dwellers purposefully created long-lasting lines and dots that would stay concealed beneath the French countryside for tens of thousands of years by running their fingers across the rock and pressing them into the cave wall. Read More: Neanderthal art Scientists have recently found that the earliest known examples of Neanderthal cave carvings are these stunning patterns. In order to verify that these remarkable patterns are the deliberate, well-organized works of human hands, the authors of a research published on Wednesday in PLOS One examined, mapped, and 3D modeled these m...