Sunday, December 26, 2021

Found: A 7,500-Year-Old Cave Painting of Humans Gathering Honey

Cave painting

Sweet bit of history from Gastro Obscura.

Manuel Bea, a researcher from the University of Zaragoza, authenticated the painting alongside colleagues Inés Domingo and Jorge Angás. “We have a perfect photograph,” he explains, that provides insight into just how these practices were conducted: by climbing ropes. The Barranco Gómez rock shelter was found by a nearby resident in 2013, but the analysis of the painting published just this year.

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