Yahoo – AFP,
Mariette Le Roux, 8 Oct 2014
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This
handout picture released by the journal Nature, on October 8, 2014, shows a
hand stencil found on a cave wall in Maros karsts on the Indonesian island of
Sulawesi (AFP Photo/Kinez Riza)
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The
silhouette of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia is 40,000 years old, showing
that Europe was not the birthplace of art as long believed, researchers said on
Wednesday.
Created by
spraying reddish paint around an open hand pressed against rock, the stencil
was made about the same time -- and possibly before -- early humans were
leaving artwork on cave walls around Europe that was long thought to be the
first in the world.
In the same
cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a painting of a pig was dated to
about 35,000 years ago, the Indonesian and Australian team reported in the
journal Nature.
The
discovery, they said, throws up two theories, both of which challenge the
conventional wisdom around the history of human artistic expression.
Art either
arose independently but simultaneously in different parts of the world -- or
was brought by Homo sapiens when he left Africa for a worldwide odyssey.
"Europeans
can't exclusively claim to be the first to develop an abstract mind
anymore," Anthony Dosseto of Australia's University of Wollongong said in
a statement.
"They
need to share this, at least, with the early inhabitants of Indonesia."
Anthropologists
consider rock art to be an indicator of the onset of abstract thinking -- the
ability to reflect on ideas and events.
Recasting
human evolution
Dosseto and
a team dated 12 hand stencils and two animal likenesses found at seven cave
sites on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
The ancient
images were discovered more than 50 years ago, but had never been accurately
dated.
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This
handout picture released by the journal Nature, on October 8, 2014, shows
hand
stencils marking a cave wall in Maros karsts on the Indonesian island of
Sulawesi (AFP Photo/Kinez Riza)
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It had been
widely assumed that anything older than 10,000 years would have eroded away in
the tropical climate.
The team
measured the radioactive decay of trace amounts of uranium found in small
stalactite-like calcite growths called "cave popcorn" that had formed
a layer less than 10 millimetres (0.38 inches) thick over the art.
The method
produced minimum estimates for the works' ages, and the pieces could in fact be
much older, said the team.
The stencil
is now officially the oldest known specimen of the hand silhouette art form,
they reported.
And the
depiction of a fat-bellied babirusa "pig deer", its four legs, head,
tail and lines of hair still clearly visible, is one of the earliest known
depictions of an animal, "if not the earliest".
"It
can now be demonstrated that humans were producing rock art about 40,000 years
ago at opposite ends of the Pleistocene Eurasian world," the team wrote.
The
previous oldest cave art was from El Castillo cave in northern Spain, including
a hand stencil dated 37,300 years ago, according to Wil Roebroeks of Leiden
University, who wrote a comment on the study.
The oldest
known animal painting was of a charcoal rhino in the Chauvet Cave in France,
dated to 35,300-38,827 years ago. Traces of red paint about 36,000-41,000 years
old were found in Fumane, Italy.
Chris
Stringer, a palaeontologist at Britain's Natural History Museum, said the new
data suggested that early humans were already artists when they spread out of
Africa tens of thousands of years ago.
"I
think some of the art in Australia will also eventually be dated to this very
early time," he said in a video distributed by Nature.
The
findings "stress the great relevance of Asia, and especially southeast
Asia, for the study of human evolution," added Roebroeks.
"Compared
with Europe, Asia has seen little fieldwork, and new finds will keep on
challenging what we think we know about human evolution."
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“.. Your Story
Several
hundred thousand years ago, Humans began to form into the Human that you
recognize today. That's just yesterday. Don't confuse this with Human
development. You have had that going on for a very long time. But the DNA that
is within your body is not the DNA that developed naturally on the planet.
Yours is outside of the system of Earth-based evolutionary processes, and the
scientists are starting to see this. The "missing link" that they
speak of is not Human.
So again,
we tell you that the ones who came to help seed you approximately 100,000 to
200,000 Earth years ago were the Pleiadians who had gone into graduate status
and who had changed consciousness. They had become quantum with free choice,
and you have parts of their DNA within you.
New
information for you: The seeding process was not a one-time event. This is why
we give you these large sections of time where the Pleiadians worked with you.
It was done over time and in many places. It was not all simultaneous, and this
was for reasons that will remain unknown to you for now, but will later explain
why you will find other Human types that now are extinct. Now you only have one
Human type, and that is counterintuitive to all mammal development on the
planet. This was a design, and it took more than 100,000 years to create this
for humanity as you know it.
It's your
Human bias that has the creation story of the knowledge of light and dark being
given to Humans in one day in a garden involving a talking snake and other
mythology. Spiritual logic should tell you that these stories are simply
metaphors of a real truth, that indeed there was a major shift of
consciousness, but over a longer period of time and not instantly. The same
mythology has the earth created in seven days. However, this only represents a
numerological truth [7 is the number of divinity], meaning that there was a
divine design in the creation of the planet. It's time to start using spiritual
logic within the teachings you have about spiritual history, for the
revelations will be wonderful and lead to fuller understanding.
Now, what
really is in your DNA? It's the Pleiadians' code, and it's the ones before
them, and even the ones before them. You can't remember it, for that is not the
set-up. The system is that your Akashic record is only from Earth, but your
"divine remembrance" will take you back to the beginning, where
system after system after system created that which you see as the divinity
within the galaxy and the Universe.
Who are
they? They're your "divine" parents. They're the seed divinity in you
and they visit here. They're not all Pleiadians, did you know that? Instead,
they're from all over the galaxy. You see, they also represent the seeds of the
Pleiadians, and they keep you safe. You wouldn't have it any other way, would
you? "Safe from what?" you might ask. ….”
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