New details of our past are coming to light, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the world, as we refine our techniques to go looking for them. Most lauded is the reconstruction of the evolution of humanity since our African origins around 300,000 ye
Replete with the ghosts of African and Eurasian populations of the deep past, these have been resurrected only through the ability of science to reach into the world of the minuscule by studying biomolecules.
In the first image below, a drawing of a diamondback rattlesnake, an animal sacred to indigenous people in the south-eastern US, stretches almost 3 meters long. The next one down shows a human figure just over 1.8 meters in length. Photogrammetry is a cheap technique increasingly used in archaeology to record artifacts, buildings, landscapes, and caves. It allowed Professor Simek's team to"lower" the cave floor up to 4 meters, enough for the complete motifs to come into view for the first time.Rock art is found on almost every continent, and the earliest is at least. It is likely that we know of only a tiny percentage of the rock art created in the past.
Until it re-emerged on our computer screen, this 64,000-year-old hand stencil remained undiscovered despite 70 years of intensive study in the cave.
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