Sketches Found in Spanish Cave May Be 200,000 Years Old

A big discovery in Spain might change what we know about early humans. The Department of Culture, Education, and Historical Heritage in Marbella, Spain announced that a special stone block was found at a place called Coto Correa in Las Chapas. This area has been important since the 1950s, when archaeologists first found old stone tools there from the early Paleolithic period.

Although verification still needs to be done to confirm the age of this carved art it no doubt would be historically significant!

Recently, scientists found a piece of gabbro, a type of hard volcanic rock, that had strange designs carved into it. These carvings look like they were made by humans a very long time ago. Experts think the markings could be around 200,000 years old, which would make them some of the oldest known human-made designs ever found.

Carved Stone

This discovery is exciting because it shows that early humans may have lived in this part of Spain much earlier than we thought. Even more amazing, the carvings might be older than the earliest known cave art by about 100,000 years. That could tell us that people were making art much earlier than scientists believed.

Researchers are now doing careful studies on the stone. They will use 3D scanning and test the quartz in the surrounding dirt to figure out exactly how old the engravings are. For more about ancient art in Spain, check out the article called “Paleo Palette”, which talks about 25,000-year-old cave paintings found in Valencia.