{"id":19738,"date":"2012-06-15T14:55:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19738"},"modified":"2012-06-15T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:36:59","slug":"the-oldest-painting-art-found-in-el-castillo-cave-in-spain-19738","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/the-oldest-painting-art-found-in-el-castillo-cave-in-spain-19738\/","title":{"rendered":"The oldest painting art found in El Castillo Cave in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The oldest painting art found in El Castillo Cave in Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The scientists have reported they found cave art which is older than any before dated. In fact, it is so old that it may not have been painted by modern humans. There is a possibility\u00a0that Neanderthals were the artists.<\/h1>\n

The researchers said in Cantabria, El Castillo they have found\u00a0hand stencils that were formed by blowing paint against the hands pressed against the wall of a cave. The scientists\u00a0found in Spain one of painting to date older than over 37 thousand years on ‘ The Panel of Hands. ‘ There is a red disc created by a very congenial technique that dates to older than 40,800 years.\u00a0This now currently is Europe’s the oldest dated painting-art by at least 4 thousand years. It is probably also the oldest reliably dated cave art anywhere in the globe.<\/p>\n

Cave painting art much more older than thought \/\u00a0The El Castillo Cave in Spain<\/h2>\n

The scientists says if anatomically modern humans have been responsible then it means they involved in the activity almost instantly on their arrival in Europe. However if Neanderthals have been the artisans, it adds another layer to the understanding of their capabilities, experiences and sophistication.<\/p>\n

Paintings The El Castillo Cave in Spain had already been dated by previous researchers. But\u00a0Alistair Pike – an\u00a0archaeologist with the University of Bristol\u00a0says those dates were unreliable, because dating cave art is very\u00a0insidious\u00a0business.\u00a0Archaeologists may define when these crusts formed by looking at tiny amounts of radioactive uranium, which slowly decays into thorium. Once researchers have determined the date of the crust, they know that the painting lying underneath must be older. Alistair\u00a0Pike and his professional group of \u00a0researchers applied this technique to the Spanish caves, and they found that some of the artwork was much older than anyone has expected.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scientists have reported they found cave art which is older than any before dated. In fact, it is so old that it may not have been painted by modern humans. There is a possibility that Neanderthals were the artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,74,63,1,118,34,14],"tags":[25204,25206,25205,25201,25203,25198,25200,25197,25199,25202,25207],"class_list":["post-19738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-world","tag-alistair-pike","tag-alistair-pike-bristol","tag-archaeologist-alistair-pike","tag-castillo-caves","tag-cave-art-found-in-spain","tag-cave-painting-art","tag-cave-painting-spain","tag-el-castillo-cave-spain","tag-oldest-painting-art","tag-the-el-castillo-cave-spain","tag-the-oldest-cave-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}