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THE WORKS FOUND IN THE BLOMBOS CAVE AGAIN

DEMOLISH THE HUMAN-EVOLUTION SCENARIO!

Discoveries during excavations in the Blombos Caves on the coast of South Africa once again over-
turned the scenario of human evolution. The Daily Telegraph covered the story under the headline
"Stone Age Man Wasn't So Dumb." Various newspapers and magazines also carried the story, stating

that theories about prehistoric man need to be completely changed. For example, BBC News reported
that, "Scientists say the discovery shows that modern ways of thinking developed far earlier than we
think." 13

Found in the Blombos caves were pieces of ochre dating back 80-100,000 years. It was conjectured that
they were used for painting the body and in other works of art. Prior to this discovery, scientists had
suggested that evidence of the human capacity for thought, understanding and
production had emerged 35,000 years ago at the earliest. These new findings to-
tally demolished that supposition. People of that time, whom evolutionists had de-
scribed as primitive and even as semi-apes, possessed the ability to understand

and produce, just like present-day humans.

The beads and various decorative objects shown here were found in the Blombos
Caves. They reveal that the people of the time had an understanding of art and took
delight in beauty and attractive things. These cannot have been the products of sup-
posedly primitive beings.

STUNNING PICTURES IN THE CHAUVET CAVE

Paintings discovered in the Chauvet Cave in 1994 caused an enormous reaction in the scientific world.
Before that, works of art in Ardèche, the 20,000-year-old images at Lascaux and the 17,000-year-old
works in Altamira in Spain had all attracted considerable attention. But the images in Chauvet were a
great deal older than these. Carbon dating revealed that these paintings were around 35,000 years old.
The following comment appeared in National Geographic magazine:

The first photographs captivated specialists and the public alike. For decades scholars had theorized that art had
advanced in slow stages from primitive scratchings to lively, naturalistic renderings... Approximately twice as old
as those in the more famous caves, Chauvet's images represented not the culmination of prehistoric art but its ear-

liest known beginnings. 14

The "Horse Panel" in the Chauvet Cave is some 6 meters (20 feet) in length.
The astonishingly beautiful paintings in the cave represent rhinoceroses,
thick-maned horses, bison, lions and ibexes among many others. Such
highly-developed art, created at a time when evolutionists expect to see
only primitive scrawls, is something that cannot be explained in terms of
Darwinist theory.

In the light of the highly developed
Above left: A picture of a leopard in the Chauvet Cave, made
artistic sensibilities evident in cave
using red ochre.
paintings, National Geographic maga-
Above right: The Horse Panel, close-up.
zine described the artists who made
them as "People Like Us."

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