Ancient People Were Ahead Of Their Time Long Before Columbus

[Skywizard]

Long-lost civilisation found? Cave paintings
YEARS before arrival of Columbus discovered

HUMANS were creating astonishing cave paintings in the Caribbean thousands of years
before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, reveals new research.

Etchings have been found on the walls of dozens of cave systems
on Mona Island

The study sheds new light on etchings found on the walls of dozens of cave systems on Mona Island, off modern day Puerto Rico.

It is the Caribbean region's largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art.

Some of the paintings are in very narrow spaces deep in the caves - only accessible by crawling.

The new research - by academics from Leicester University and the British Museum working with colleagues from the British Geological Survey and Cambridge University, - reveals key discoveries including how the rock-art was made and paint recipes.

Some of the paintings are in very narrow spaces deep in the caves

Exploration of around 70 cave systems on Mona Island revealed that its caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in "dark zone" chambers far from the entrances.

The findings, published by the Journal of Archaeological Science, are the fruit of three-years of research, from 2013 to 2016, on the currently uninhabited and remote island in the Caribbean.

The paper presents the results of National Geographic funded fieldwork by an Anglo-Puerto Rican team, who uncovered extensive and undocumented rock art deep inside the "labyrinthine" cave systems.

Study co-author Dr Alice Samson, of Leicester University's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, said: "Scientific analyses from the team have provided the first dates for rock art in the Caribbean - illustrating that these images are pre-Columbian made by artists exploring and experimenting deep underground.

Experts have explored around 70 cave systems on Mona Island

"The conservation-minded approach we used squeezed every bit of information we could out of the discovery using multiple methods that are relevant to the studies of vulnerable rock art worldwide."

Dr Jago Cooper, of the British Museum, said: "For the millions of indigenous peoples living in the Caribbean before European arrival, caves represented portals into a spiritual realm, and therefore these new discoveries of the artists at work within them captures, the essence of their belief systems and the building blocks of their cultural identity."

Dr Samson the team uncovered multiple rock art sites inside the caves with iconography consisting of human, animal, and meandering designs.

She said some are painted or drawn, and others - drawn with the fingers in the soft walls - are more elaborate and akin to a technique called "finger-fluting" familiar from Palaeolithic rock art in southern Europe.

Thousands of motifs were recorded in "dark zone" chambers far
from the entrances

The research team also included students from Puerto Rico and Britain carrying out dissertations in Climate Science, Archaeology, and History.

Victor Serrano, a member of the student team and PhD distance learning student in Leciester University's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, said: "As a Puerto Rican these groups of people that visited and lived in Mona Island are my ancestors, and their story is of utmost importance.

"Working in those caves, as part of the Corazon del Caribe archaeological project, is hard but fun work."

He added: "Most of the precolonial pictographs are in very narrow spaces deep in the caves, some are very hard to access, you have to crawl to get to them, they are very extensive and humidity is very high but it is extremely rewarding.

"Imagine a social networking site, where instead of having a page with posts of people here you have an actual cave wall or roof full of different pictographs."





Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/873...s-civilisation


peace...

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Interesting article, thanks. I do wonder though why they even have to mention Columbus relative to this discovery, much less make a sensation out of it. Indigenous peoples, like the Arawak for example, populated the Caribbean thousands of years before European civilization even arose.

[CurEus]

Interesting find! I wonder what the water levels were like in the caves when they were actively used?

Small problem though:
Victor Serrano, a member of the student team says "As a Puerto Rican these groups of people that visited and lived in Mona Island are my ancestors"
He has not realized that he (as a Peurto Rican Colonizer) has nothing in common with these Pre-Columbian indigenous peoples...the term PRE Columbian is pretty clear.

[ghostrider]

Mainstream has a problem with ancient peoples being very far advanced of our current level of technology ... Today we still couldn't build the great pyramid of Egypt ... History is very tightly controlled ...

[CurEus]

The narrative from the "main stream" is every so slowly changing.

Primarily Archaeology and Anthropology as "social sciences" cannot withstand the close scrutiny of the "hard sciences" AKA evidence based ( i hate that term btw).

In a nutshell a bunch of guys wandered around the world and made up stories about the monuments, megaliths and peoples they came across. Some of their invented fantasies ( analysis THEY Call It ) are completely moronic, and would get any first year student FAILED for being an idiot. Yeeeeeeeeet these are the "foundations" of the disciplines. When they came upon Indigenous Peoples they bluntly told them that their own oral history was WRONG and merrily went about fabricating a narrative that fit their bias and prejudiced preconceptions.

Along come actual scientists.......doing REAL lab work and now most of the Arcaeologists and Anthropologists pet theories are proven to be WRONG. They find this unpleasant so they ignore facts, science and testing. They can become quite agressive when challenged as I expect this rigidly enforced worldview is essentially a very long running psy-op.

I was thrown out my anthopology course when I insisted that Neanderthals MUST have mated with modern humans. My professor insisted no human would ever breed with a Neanderthal. I bluntly observed that some men sleep with goats and sheep...a giant hairy female "would" be somewhat "preferable"... and I was pretty much certain some people from Eastern Europe have serious brow ridges....and no chin..........their skulls could pass for neanderthal haha ( true BTW).


Lies lies and more lies.......everything is a pack of lies.
They cannot date anything of an organic material accurately through "science" most testing gives a range of +/- 1-15000 years Carbon dating is by "best estimate" ( that is incredulous)
Geology is likely to be wildly inaccurate with dating if one is an adherent to the electric universe.
Stone monuments cannot be "dated" at all. So you can say ANYTHING you want and if enough of your peers agree...it is settled. THAT IS NOT SCIENCE!!!!
DNA databases are routinely "edited" for anomalies which are then removed or reclassified. This occurs silently.
Archaeologists are supposed to DIG.....they still have not dug more than 5 ft into the areas surrounding stonehenge (. Look how far they must dig on Easter island or at gobleki tepi.......imagine what will be found when we dig 500 or 1000 or 10,000 ft?

It is likely that we are dealing with a planet with intelligent civilizations that may have existed for hundreds of thousands of years perhaps much LONGER.
....which tends to get wiped out and obliterated every 13,000 years or so.

We don't know because academics ignore one another's disciplines as a matter of professional pride.

Good news many of are sick of the BS and most millennials don't really "care" about what crusty old deans or department chairs think.
Our saving grace may be apathy with the establishment.....

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Oh and the ENTIRE ocean is practically ignored........most older civilizations are with certainty..... under water.