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The president of the Portuguese Association of Archeological Research (APIA), Nuno Ribeiro, revealed Monday having found rock art on the island of Terceira, supporting his believe that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years, Lusa reported.
“We have found a rock art site with representations we believe can be dated back to the Bronze Age,” Ribeiro told Lusa in Ponta Delgada, at a presentation in University of the Azores on the topic of early human occupation of the Azores.
The oldest cave art known in Europe is of prehistoric origin, dating back to approximately 40,000 years ago. In the last three years, Ribeiro has been claiming that archeological remains of structures discovered on several Azorean islands are of pre-Portuguese origin by its architecture and construction.
“We have an epigraph from Roman times, according to two scientists who were invited to interpret the inscription, a cave art site, megalithic structures, and an important set of structures scattered throughout the islands that need to be interpreted in new ways,”
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(also: Guanchis or Guanchetos) is the name given to the aboriginal Berber inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It is believed that they migrated to the archipelago sometime between 1000 BCE and 100 BCE or perhaps earlier. While it is generally considered that the Guanches no longer exist as a distinct ethnicity,[1] traces of their culture can still be found intermixed within Canarian customs and traditions, such as Silbo, the "whistled language" of La Gomera Island.
New dating tests have proven that drawings from the Caves of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain, are the oldest paintings in the world made by humans. The pictures apparently depict seals and were painted more than 42,000 years ago, making them the first known cave paintings created by Neanderthals. Before this discovery, the drawings made about 32,000 years ago in the Chauvent-Pont-d’Arc Cave in the Ardèche department of southern France, were the considered the oldest. However the new tests, dating the charcoal that was found next to the Nerja cave paintings, dates them somewhere between 42,300 and 43,500 years old
Originally posted by SLAYER69
I'm posting this one because I'd really like to get those who have a more in depth knowledge on the known and accepted history of the Azores to chime in on what they think of this possible discovery. I know if this is true it has the possibility of opening up some other theories about just how far Ancient man could have sailed in Prehistory...
It's not the greatest translation and kind of hard to read and follow in parts
Prehistoric rock art found in caves on Terceira Island – Azores
The president of the Portuguese Association of Archeological Research (APIA), Nuno Ribeiro, revealed Monday having found rock art on the island of Terceira, supporting his believe that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years, Lusa reported.
“We have found a rock art site with representations we believe can be dated back to the Bronze Age,” Ribeiro told Lusa in Ponta Delgada, at a presentation in University of the Azores on the topic of early human occupation of the Azores.
The oldest cave art known in Europe is of prehistoric origin, dating back to approximately 40,000 years ago. In the last three years, Ribeiro has been claiming that archeological remains of structures discovered on several Azorean islands are of pre-Portuguese origin by its architecture and construction.
“We have an epigraph from Roman times, according to two scientists who were invited to interpret the inscription, a cave art site, megalithic structures, and an important set of structures scattered throughout the islands that need to be interpreted in new ways,”
Thoughts?
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Correct me if I am wrong....but why would man not have been in Portugal as early as man was in the rest of Europe?
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Correct me if I am wrong....but why would man not have been in Portugal as early as man was in the rest of Europe?
In fact, that's one of the sites that shows interbreeding between h. sapiens and h. neanderthalis. So, yes, h. sapiens was all over northern Europe for quite a long time.