Archeologists Find Central Europe's Oldest Painting

"When [Nicholas] Conard's archeology team made their discovery at the Hohle Fels site in the early summer of 2009, they had not been expecting to find anything because they were working in comparably young layers of sediment created at the end of the last ice age rather than the older, deeper layers where other artifacts had been found. Nothing had ever been uncovered from this particular era in the numerous caves dotted around the Swabian Alps.

Then one student noticed a strange stone lying amongst the sediment. "This stone was so dirty that at first you didn't see anything," Conard recalled. It was only when the stone was washed that it became clear one side had been painted."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  Spiegel Online
On:  11/09/11
Website:  http://www.spiegel.de

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