9,000-year-old rock sketches proves early humans knew all about dinosaurs
Researchers made an extraordinary discovery of 9,000-year-old rocks with drawings etched into them, positioned next to footprints believed to belong to dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period around 66 million years ago.
The drawings, known as petroglyphs, were found in the agricultural site Serrote do Letreiro in Paraíba, Eastern Brazil.
Okay it's the Indy, so not to be taken too seriously on any subject without checking sources. Those petroglyphs clearly mean something like -
Need bigger spears.
Or
You catch it, I'll cook it.
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Maybe they carved the "dinosaur" footprints as well.
"Imagine what future generations will think when they find these!"
In a chat once I said "There are chumps who believe that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time." One bloke gave me a startled look; clearly he was one of those chumps. So, it would appear, is the journalist who wrote this story.
It’s quite a jump from finding the petroglyphs to saying that they “reveal a deep reverence for fossil tracks among Brazil’s ancient, indigenous communities”.
Maybe, millennia hence, self-important archaeologists will solemnly point out faint vestiges of colourful graffiti as evidence of the respectful esteem in which our culture held its transport network.
Be fair, the descendants of dinosaurs exist today. We call them chickens.
It was in their early history books in the caves.
Sam - that's a thought, maybe they were part of a drawing lesson, drawn large so those at the back could see.
dearieme - it probably comes from watching films such as One Million Years B.C. and many other monster films where the monsters look like dinosaurs.
DJ - and maybe dinosaurs were just as edible, although stuffing them could be tricky.
Anon - records of past feats of hunting prowess perhaps.
Macheath - yes it's a heck of a jump, but I like your image of self-important archaeologists and surviving hints of our railway graffiti.
A dinner party guest once told Antonia Fraser (historian of the Tudor period), that she was quite wrong: Queen Elisabeth did meet Mary Queen of Scots because she'd seen it in the film!
Tammly - yes it's astounding when people think a film they enjoyed is historically accurate. As if it's a documentary rather than entertainment. Not that documentaries are generally reliable.
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