Fingal's Cave Paintings - Norway

[KeyserXSoze]

http://www.norwaypost.no/content.asp?cluster_id=26359&folder_id=21

New cave paintings discovered

Another 26 cave paintings have been discovered in the Fingal Cave at Naeroey in Troendelag.

When the cave was discovered in 1961, 21 paintings were registered. The 47 paintings depict both people and animals.

-The cave paintings may be more than 3000 years old, archaeologist Melanie Wrigglesworth at the Science Museum says to NRK.

She believes the find may give us more knowledge of how human beings in the late Stone Age and in Older Bronze Age percieved the world around them.

The cave is both dark, wet and cold, and she believes that no one lived there, but that it was possibly used for some sort of religious practice, and that the paintings of animals and people were made in this connection.

 

[CuriousIdent]

Like some kind of religious gallery, of an age gone by?

Bizarre.

 

[Anonymous]

Like some kind of religious gallery, of an age gone by?

Bizarre.

But quite common. Most cave art is in places where no human ever lived, like deep, damp caves far from the light. You will sometimes find traces of rituals in those caves, but not daliy life.