Re: 27ka body!

Zoggi wrote:
nickname wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198020,00.html

And contents text below:
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VILHONNEUR, France - A 27,000-year-old human skeleton laid out in a
room decorated with ancient art was among the rare finds at a cave in
western France whose subterranean art predates that of the famed
Lascaux caves, officials said Friday.

It was only the second time that a human body from the upper
Paleolithic period had been found placed in a cave with decorations,
the Culture Ministry said.

The state took over ownership of the cave in the Vilhonneur forest on
May 12, a ministry statement said.

A crude representation of a human face found in the cave could be among
the oldest ever discovered, said Jean-Yves Baratin, archaeology curator
for the Poitou-Charentes region.

The face is "represented in the most elementary way, using an anomaly
of the wall," Baratin said.

Two pieces of calcite that split are used to form the hair with two
black horizontal strokes depicting the eyes. A vertical stroke forms
the nose and another horizontal stroke the mouth.

Cavers exploring part of a grotto once used to dispose of animal
carcasses discovered the cave in December. It dates to the upper
Paleolithic period roughly 25,000 years ago, like the skeleton.
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Additional text and material (importantly the photographs) of the
Vilhonneur cave art and human bone (in French language) at:
http://www.hominides.com/html/actualites/vilhonneur-decouverte-grotte-jourdy.html

Credit Jacques Cinq-Mars for finding this,
and extended discussion (beginning February this year) of this new
decorated cave on Palanth forum at:
http://forum.palanth.com/index.php/topic,906.0.html

Dar

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