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07-16-2004, 07:13 PM
Ice Age 'Sistine Chapel' Found (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040712/cavedrawing.html)
By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
July 13, 2004 — An elaborately decorated cave ceiling with artwork dating to 13,000 years ago has been found in Nottinghamshire, England, according to a press release issued today by the University of Sheffield.
The site of the find, Church Hole Cave at Creswell Crags, is being called the "Sistine Chapel" of the Ice Age because it contains the most ornate cave art ceiling in the world. The ceiling extends the earliest rock art in Britain by approximately 8,000 years and suggests that a primary culture unified Europeans during the Ice Age.
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Jon Humble, inspector of ancient monuments for a preservation group called English Heritage, commented, "The text books say that there is no cave art in Britain. These will now have to be rewritten. It is remarkable to consider that some 500 generations ago people created pictures on the wall of the caves depicting the world that they knew, which certainly was not as we know it."
Plans are in the works to construct a museum and education center at Creswell.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040712/gallery/cavedrawing_goto.jpg
Stork drawing
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040712/gallery/bear_goto.jpg
Bear head
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By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
July 13, 2004 — An elaborately decorated cave ceiling with artwork dating to 13,000 years ago has been found in Nottinghamshire, England, according to a press release issued today by the University of Sheffield.
The site of the find, Church Hole Cave at Creswell Crags, is being called the "Sistine Chapel" of the Ice Age because it contains the most ornate cave art ceiling in the world. The ceiling extends the earliest rock art in Britain by approximately 8,000 years and suggests that a primary culture unified Europeans during the Ice Age.
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Jon Humble, inspector of ancient monuments for a preservation group called English Heritage, commented, "The text books say that there is no cave art in Britain. These will now have to be rewritten. It is remarkable to consider that some 500 generations ago people created pictures on the wall of the caves depicting the world that they knew, which certainly was not as we know it."
Plans are in the works to construct a museum and education center at Creswell.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040712/gallery/cavedrawing_goto.jpg
Stork drawing
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040712/gallery/bear_goto.jpg
Bear head
<hr>
There are more pictures in the article.