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Submitted by davidmorgan on Saturday, 31 July 2010  Page Views: 6668

Rock ArtSite Name: Coliboaia Cave
Country: Romania
NOTE: This site is 26.185 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Alba
Latitude: 46.505954N  Longitude: 23.008110E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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30,000 year old cave paintings in north-west Romania.

Note: Romanian Cave May Boast Central Europe's Oldest Cave Art
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Romanian Cave May Boast Central Europe's Oldest Cave Art by davidmorgan on Saturday, 31 July 2010
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Another article with photos here:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/06/romanian-cave-may-boast-central.html
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Re: Coliboaia Cave by davidmorgan on Saturday, 31 July 2010
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From coldrum:

Romanian experts have discovered the most ancient cave paintings found to date in Central Europe, aged up to 35,000 years old, Romanian and French scientists said Sunday.

The pictures show animals including a buffalo, a horse and even a rhinoceros.

"It is for the first time in Central Europe that... art this old has been found and confirmed", said a joint statement from the Romanian Federation of Speleology -- the scientific study of caves -- and Jean Clottes, an expert working with UNESCO.

It is a "major discovery" and "its authenticity is certain", Clottes, a specialist in prehistoric art, told AFP. He was called on by Romanian specialists to certify the discovery.

His team included cavers, a paleontologist, an archaeologist and two cave art specialists and estimated the drawings were "attributable to a period of ancient rock art, the Gravettian or the Aurignacian (between 23,000 and 35,000 years ago)."

Carbon tests must confirm these estimates, they said.

The black-paint drawings, discovered three or four months ago in the Coliboaia cave in northwestern Romania, depict animals, including a buffalo, a horse, bear heads and rhinoceros, federation chief Viorel Traian Lascu said.

http://www.physorg.com/news195668903.html
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