Researchers Confirm Oldest Cave Art in Britain a Century After It Was Dismissed as a Mineral Deposit

What looked like simple red stains turned out to be Britain’s oldest cave art from 17,100 years ago

Inside a limestone cave on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, eleven parallel horizontal lines of red pigment have been sitting on a cave wall for roughly 17,100 years. They were first noticed by scientists in 1912,…