British scientists are set to be onlock the secrets of hidden cave paintings which could reveal humans survived during the changing climate of ice age is more than 15,000 years ago. This paintings has been used a new technique based on the radioactive decay of uranium. Traditional methods of dating the pigments like radiocarbon, are destructive to the paintings, and the samples are prone to contmination. A team from the department of archaeology and anthrology has used a new method that can date thin calcite layers that have formed over the surface of the paintings. This above paintings, which contains almost 300 drawings of animals and is the largest number of cave paintigns shows pictorial representations on the lberian paninsula and also contains several series of isolated dots.
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