[Stones] 15,000 year-old cave sculptures go on display

[David Swindlehurst]

Something of a pity that the Independent doesn't appear to know the 
difference between 1500 and 15000.

Can we believe anything it says?

DMS

littlestone wrote:
>
> "Prehistoric cave sculptures never seen by the public will be revealed 
> today thanks to the most advanced, computerised techniques of 
> laser-copying and visual display.
>
> "A museum to open near Poitiers, in western France, will span 
> one-a-half millenniums of human image-making, from stone chisels to 
> computers. The star of the show, at Angles-sur-L'Anglin, in the 
> départementof Vienne, will be a 60ft-long frieze of bison, horses, 
> cats, goats and erotic female figures, carved into the limestone of 
> western France 15,000 years ago.
>
> "The caverns containing the frieze were discovered by French and 
> British archaeologists in 1950 but have never been opened to the 
> public. The Roc-aux-Sorciers (witches' rock) caves are the only site 
> of their kind in Europe: a two-dimensional, carved equivalent of the 
> celebrated cave paintings at Lascaux in Dordogne, 120 miles farther 
> south, which were created 1,000 years earlier."*
>
> * 
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/cave-sculptures-go-on-display-for-first-time-in-15000-years-799030.html
>
> More here, in French, but with some stunning 
> pics http://www.roc-aux-sorciers.com/
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