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The wonderful prehistoric cave paintings found in Europe were not made by humans–not by modern humans, anyway. A new way of determining the age of some of those paintings reveals that they were made by Neanderthals (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). This is especially eerie when we realize that many of the paintings were made by blowing pigment over the artist’s hand–and that these were not the hands of modern humans.
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Cave paintings discovered in Spain in the 1870s have been dated using a new process and found to be 15,000 years older than thought. This makes them 41,000 years old, so old that they may have been made not by modern humans, but by Neanderthals. What makes them so important is that they date from the time when modern humans first came to Europe from Africa.

The paintings depict a red sphere (the sun?) and many handprints made by blowing pigment on a hand that was placed against the cave wall. Scientists dated the Spanish cave paintings by measuring the decay of uranium atoms in the paint.
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Don’t believe "creationists" when they tell you that early man cavorted with dinosaurs–the big lizards died off millions of years before we came along. But a new study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence that when humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age, they lived alongside gigantic mammals that are now extinct, including mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths.
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