IHATEU Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/ts_nm/syria_painting_dc AMASCUS (Reuters) - French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world. The 2 square-meter painting, in red, black and white, was found at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates, northeast of the city of Aleppo, team leader Eric Coqueugniot told Reuters. "It looks like a modernist painting. Some of those who saw it have likened it to work by (Paul) Klee. Through carbon dating we established it is from around 9,000 B.C.," Coqueugniot said. "We found another painting next to it, but that won't be excavated until next year. It is slow work," said Coqueugniot, who works at France's National Centre for Scientific Research. Rectangles dominate the ancient painting, which formed part of an adobe circular wall of a large house with a wooden roof. The site has been excavated since the early 1990s. The painting will be moved to Aleppo's museum next year, Coqueugniot said. Its red came from burnt hematite rock, crushed limestone formed the white and charcoal provided the black. The world's oldest painting on a constructed wall was one found in Turkey but that was dated 1,500 years after the one at Djade al-Mughara, according to Science magazine. The inhabitants of Djade al-Mughara lived off hunting and wild plants. They resembled modern day humans in looks but were not farmers or domesticated, Coqueugniot said. "There was a purpose in having the painting in what looked like a communal house, but we don't know it. The village was later abandoned and the house stuffed with mud," he said. A large number of flints and weapons have been found at the site as well as human skeletons buried under houses. "This site is one of several Neolithic villages in modern day Syria and southern Turkey. They seem to have communicated with each other and had peaceful exchanges," Coqueugniot said. Mustafa Ali, a leading Syrian artist, said similar geometric design to that in the Djade al-Mughara painting found its way into art throughout the Levant and Persia, and can even be seen in carpets and kilims (rugs). "We must not lose sight that the painting is archaeological, but in a way it's also modern," he said. France is an important contributor to excavation efforts in Syria, where 120 teams are at work. Syria was at the crossroads of the ancient world and has thousands of mostly unexcavated archaeological sites. Swiss-German artist Paul Klee had links with the Bauhaus school and was important in the German modernist movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 it looks like a checkerboard of some kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 that's some prehistoric ICH shit. im'a go punch a hole through it next time i'm in town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVERWURST* Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 That's impossible. That would have happened way before world existed, before Jesus fought the Dinosaurs in the old testament 5000 years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Fuck property. It doesn't really exist. And fuck anybody who tells you that it does. Brick to face style. Drunk is gooooooooodddd. Like graffiti. Cause I said so. And cavemen agreed. Bump cavemen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinTimberlake Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 is it a coincidense that 10,000BC is coming out soon? i think not ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 so it wont be long now until some drunk french kids try to beat the crap out of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 i think it would be hilarious if drunk french kids going around and punching art became an actual problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Feast Island Man Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 tupac painted it. under cia mind control. on the secret base where they faked the moon landing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 i think it would be hilarious if drunk french kids going around and punching art became an actual problem. I was def thinkin this when I read that other thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 man you a newb...my graf is OLLLLLLLL school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deterrent Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Linden Boulevard represent, represent Tribe Called Quest represent, represent When the mic is in my hand, I'm never hesitant My favourite jam back in the day was Eric B. for President Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 you mean drawings on cave walls that was later called art by archeologists, then people who listened to "hip hop" appropriated onto their cities walls and called their own, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Fuck property. It doesn't really exist. And fuck anybody who tells you that it does. Brick to face style. so if someone took all of your possessions, it wouldnt faze you since property doesnt exist? if someone burned you car and house to the ground, you would just move on because property doesnt exist? if a bank came through and took your mothers house away and she put on the streets, would you tell her her property never existed and put a brick in her face? probably not. sometimes people say such silly things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 ^What's silly is you taking drunken babble seriously. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHATEU Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 man gamblers really got pissed at you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatetown Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 that caveman was up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 man gamblers really got pissed at you... i recently realized i do a lot of 'angry bantering' on here. i like to pointlessly point out posts i find to be retarded. i dont know why. as i said, its pointless. many times they are as dumb as as the post i am complaining about. and thats my same response too for "taking drunken babble seriously." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Jefe Uno Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 i think it would be hilarious if drunk french kids going around and punching art became an actual problem. Hahahaha I really want that to happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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