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World’s Oldest Art? Uranium-thorium Dating Used on Spanish Cave Paintings

Scientists tested the Spanish cave paintings, that were first discovered in the 1870′s and found that one is at least 40,800 years old, which is about 15,000 years older than they previously thought. If they are this old, it makes the Spanish cave paintings older than the famous French cave paintings by thousands of years. Scientists dated the Spanish cave paintings by the Neanderthals by measuring... 
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