'The oldest work of art ever': 42,000-year-old paintings of seals found in Spanish cave. Six paintings were found in the Nerja Caves, 35miles east of MalagaThey are the only known artistic images created by Neanderthal man By Tom Worden for MailOnline Updated: 21:27 GMT, 7 February 2012 The world's oldest works of art have been found in a cave on Spain's Costa del Sol, scientists believe. Six paintings of seals are at least 42,000 years old and are the only known artistic images created by Neanderthal man, experts claim. Professor Jose Luis Sanchidrian, from the University of Cordoba, described the discovery as 'an academic bombshell', as all previous art work has been attributed to Homo sapiens. Important find: These six paintings of seals were discovered in the Nerja Caves near Malaga, Spain. The paintings were found in the Nerja Caves, 35 miles east of Malaga in the southern region of Andalusia.
Spanish scientists sent organic residue found next to the paintings to Miami, where they were dated at being between 43,500 and 42,300 years old. Bradshaw Paintings. JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World. Introduction to the Bradshaw Paintings / Gwion Gwion. Spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster (latest Chrome and Safari) ←→seek . seek to previous 12…6 seek to 10%, 20%, …60% Bradshaw Paintingfrom the Kimberley 65,000 years ago, our ancestors crossed by boat in groups from Timor into Australia.
Deer Painting Panel Boat Painting Deer of any kind have never been part of Australia’s fauna. Exploring the Kimberley The approximate date of the colonisation of this continent is based on scientific evidence. Bradshaw-sash-page-3.jpg (JPEG Image, 2480 × 3509 pixels) - Scaled (24%) Bradshaw_rock_paintings. Gwion-gwion-bradshaw-figures.jpg (JPEG Image, 580 × 378 pixels) Is the earliest form of writing found in Australia? | Red Earth Blue Sky. Is the earliest form of writing found in Australia? There is no consensus as to when and where writing developed. Some have argued that the earliest examples of writing were symbols scratched on tortoise shells that dated back to the 7th millennium BC.
These were found in Northern China. Others have argued that the the Vinča symbols, found on various artifacts unearthed in south-east Europe, are an example of proto-writing. That means that they convey a message but don’t encode a language. Out of these forms of symbol making, iconography developed for Chinese writing and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Predating all these is the Bradshaws rock art of the Kimberly. The only real expert on the Bradshaw art was the late Graham Walsh, who documented and studied the art for over 40 years. The theory of iconography necessitated that Walsh demonstrate that the pictures had some repetitive patterns and styles.
So are the Bradshaws (Gwion Gwion) an example of proto-writing? Like this: Like Loading... Bradshaw_rock_art_traditions.