Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by barrkel on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:33PM (#21774061)

To be clear, there's a logic behind this: the experts are looking at similarities between figurative art in Europe and Asia and hypothesizing a common ancestor rather than coincidence.

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Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by wrnr on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:49PM (#21774249)

Thats a fun theory, but how is that different than all the pyramids found around the word. I mean, it's sort of is the "easiest" big structure one can build.

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Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by koboll on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:03PM (#21774429)

Surely the paintings that survived for 44,000 years aren't the only ones that were painted that early. There's no particular reason that art couldn't be older -- much older, even -- but not be able to survive for much longer than that.

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Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by SantalBlush on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:57PM (#21774342)

I know nothing about this field, but could differences in climate or geology explain why they haven't found these types of paintings in Africa?

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