A mortal blow to Young Earth creationism

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Cypress

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It is probably Neaderthals or Homo Denisovans, because I do not think Homo Sapiens were on the Tibetan plateau 226k years ago.

These 200,000-Year-Old Hand and Footprints Could Be the World’s Earliest Cave Art

Found at a hot spring on the Tibetan Plateau, the impressions were likely left by hominin children

Between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago, two children in what is now Quesang, Tibet, left a set of handprints and footprints on a travertine boulder. Seemingly placed intentionally, the now-fossilized impressions may be the world’s oldest known parietal, or cave, art, a new study published in the journal Science Bulletin suggests.

“The question is: What does this mean? How do we interpret these prints? They’re clearly not accidentally placed,” says study co-author Thomas Urban, a scientist at Cornell University’s Tree-Ring Laboratory, in the statement.

The discovery offers the earliest evidence of hominins’ presence on the Tibetan Plateau, write co-authors Matthew R. Bennett and Sally C. Reynolds for the Conversation. Additionally, the pair point out, the findings support previous research indicating that children were some of the first artists.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ould-be-the-worlds-oldest-cave-art-180978702/
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Into the Night said:
That dates the rock (sort of), not the hand prints. How are they dating a void???
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What makes you think they are dating a void?

Your misguided assumptions do not merit or require explanations.

To the best of my knowledge, the method is to date the rock containing the handprints. At the time these hominid children were alive they were playing in some carbonate mud, which later lithified into travertine rock.

The age of the mud indicates the approximate time these hominid juveniles made the impressions in the mud.
 
Young earth creationism does not require a blow. It is just too stupid to discuss. It is on the level of flat earth.
 
anonymoose said:
I was surprised to see Cypress start a thread on this.
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A thread about Paleolithic cave art?

Why would that be unexpected?

Science, archaeology, and paleoanthropology are keen interests of mine -- and in my estimation are more interesting topics than half the horseshit posted on this forum.
 
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