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The El Castillo Cave in Spain becomes the oldest cave art in Europehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18449711So lucky it survived for so long !
The cave art is said to date to somewhere near 38,000 B.C. To compare, the works at the cave in Altamira, Spain, date to around 11,000 B.C., and at Lascaux they date to 13-15,000 B.C. You can see some of the works from photos of the El Castillo cave where it looks like a handprint. Presumably, this was done by prehistoric people chewing on something like charcoal and then blowing it out onto the cave wall over their hand. It was as prehistoric type of “spray paint”, if you will.
Decline and fall.Mohenjo Daro, one of the earliest cities in the world could be lost forever.Some experts have gone so far as to suggest the entire site should be buried again to halt its decline.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18491900
It is all related to anthropology only. It should not be destroyed but has to be preserved for years so that the coming generation got to know about all this. It should not be limited to books only.
The oldest (to date) european town unhearthed and could date back to between 4700 and 4200 BC; about 1,500 years before the start of ancient Greek civilisation.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20156681
Catal Hoyuk goes back about 1500 year before that Bulgarian town, and it's not far away. It would be interesting to see a town of that age appear in Europe somewhere west of the Balkans.
A month-by-month view of what excited archaeologists through the year 2012From popcorn to 5,000 years old immigration, Bronze Age trade boats, medieval volcanic mass graves, prehistoric dentistry, 2,000 years old Toyotism production, Iron Age bag burial helmet looking so close to the US M1 helmet and more.Can't wait for 2013!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20795347
That helmet doesn't look like anything from the 1 B.C. that I'm aware of. It looks too “modern.” Interesting.
