Detecting 12,000-year-old drawings from the Ice Age

Archaeologists have a remarkable discovery with cave paintings in eastern France dating to 12,000 years old, hidden under another drawing.

Earlier, the houses had long suspected that the area was home to ancient drawings. Recently, however, thanks to modern scanning techniques, including the use of special image processing computer programs, they can find drawings.

"Researchers have been suspicious for a long time that there will be a cave with ancient paintings in it," said Professor Harald Floss, a member of the research team.

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Figures from ancient times were discovered in France.

The prehistoric images discovered surprisingly are an illustration of a horse and a deer likely to appear at the time of the Ice Age. To get the exact parameters, the researchers used the Carbon-14 age determination method.

The period is said to be the time when drawings appeared called Pleistocene .

Archaeologists say that although the southern Burgundy region has been discovered for more than 20 years, new figures discovered in this cave can provide more clues about the interaction between children. human and .

"They may have migrated here from the east across the Danube and from the south across the Rhône River. Our data shows that Neandertal and early modern people may have been present in eastern France." Professor Harald Floss said.

Currently, archaeologists are still working to find new information.