Cave paintings - somewhere cold?

I guess that was in Scotland maybe? Because at the beginning of the international trailer we see similar view to this photo http://www.prometheusnews.net/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_lxv47bo4Ys1qesjbt.jpg and then we see their discovery. And this place is located in Scotland.

The location depicted is the [url=http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/skye/thestorr.shtml]Storr (check this link)[/url], Isle of Skye, Scotland. It can also be seen in the briefing scene, it's the central panel. If I remember correctly, the talks about Africa were about Shaw's childhood, according to some of the gazillion "leaked" scripts.

Yes Ruth, the actual location is the 'Old Man of' something or other isnt it? But where is the place *supposed* to be? It'd be funny if they found the co-ordinates in Cleethorpes wouldnt' it? It would really set the stage for terror and mayhem.

'Storr' that's it, thanks Noxword your reply leapfrogged mine. But again, where (on earth) is it supposed to be I wonder?

I think I understand what you mean, but still. I don't think they would film in Scotland and then say this location in film is somewhere in Africa (for example). I believe in movie they find those cave paintings in Scotland, just where they were filming it.

The scenes of the Old Man of Storr shot on the Isle of Skye are an actual depiction of the west coast of Scotland. If you look closely at the International Trailer UK at 0:29 when shaw says the words 'ancient civilisations' the holographic projection of the cave painting as the camera pans past says 'Isle of Skye' and Cuilling Region. The little map at the bottom of the painting also shows a red dot over the west of Scotland. Very cool that Scotland has become an official location in the Alien universe.

That's a fair point Ruth, I suppose it could actually be Scotland then. When I first heard about the Storr location, I thought it was going to be used for the planet exterior sequences.

As soon as I saw that brief clip in the trailer I thought that it looked like Scotland. It seems that reading people comments that it is so I must be well ace!

Thanks Great Northern, that's put that to bed for me then, lol. Yeah, Scotland - how radical - makes a change from usual Indiana Jones -style desert/hot locations where ancient-clue-discovery-type things normally occur.

It's not a case that it could be Scotland. It DEFINITELY is.

Pretty sure Holloway says "Cave paintings in France" when they are showing those images.............. So even though it was shot in Scotland (I myself have been where they filmed) it may be a case of calling the location somewhere else in the movie. Dunno what the reason may be but I'm sure there is a reason.....

So where is Africa cave painting?

Cypher, maybe there were another cave paintings that had been found in France.

Look at the info on the Holgraphic projection ( In the middle of the display it says Isle of Skye, Cuillin region, which is a place on Skye. The scenes that show the Storr and the cave are the same scene. The discovery of the painting in Scotland is the final clue before they go on their grand voyage.

[i]Pretty sure Holloway says "Cave paintings in France"[/i] right, thats what they look like, too. I think they should give a realistic, plausible background for the plot, so they look like the famous Lascaux cave paintings in southern france. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

They would never show the old man of storr and then claim the location was someplace else. Young Holloway and Shaw find these similar artifacts that are dating back to prehistoric times. They probably also found some in France like the Lascaux paintings.

no, its definitely scotland..here is a pic of the projection with the location.. [URL=http://www.imagebanana.com/view/ntyzqnw6/proection.png][IMG]http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/ntyzqnw6/thumb/proection.png[/IMG][/URL]

Yes the cave painting they found recently is on the Isle of Skye. What I am saying is when Holloway says "cave paintings from France" he is referring to another painting they discovered maybe or the Lascaux paintings. They definitely will not show a popular landmark like the old man of storr and try to convince us that it is somewhere else though.

There seem to have been many paintings from diverse locations. Some of which may have been cold.

Sarkozy's cave. It's definitly France...

ZetaReticuli- Holloway says "Mesopotamia, Aztec and cave paintings in France" The SEVEN pictographs with the same star system. (Seven pops up a lot...) This what I can make out. Egyptian - 2470 BCE Mexico - 620 BCE - destruction excavation - site B - Teotihuacan Sumarian - 3590 BCE - Early Sumerian Settlement - Lower ERIDU (our old puzzler friend) Isle of Skye - 35000 BCE North Island Eileen 4 ??? Cuillin Region Babylonian - 1540 BCE Hittite - 1760 BCE Hawaiian? / Francias? - 680 BCE (too blurred) Interesting how the Scottish pictograph is the oldest... [IMG]http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o612/Nephilim-LV426/Prometheus/Seven_tablets.png[/IMG] and....how about this? [IMG]http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o612/Nephilim-LV426/Prometheus/Prometheus_Destination.png[/IMG]

I'll recant Lascaux (which I posted in an earlier thread). I don't think Ridley, being who he is, would repaint such a famous site. But that doesn't mean There aren't other cave formations in France. They didn't discover Lescaux for ages because it's entrance is currently underwater, though it wasn't when the cave was being used. Or so they taught us in art school. It's been a while...

Cave paintings belong to Magdaleniensis stone age culture in many caves in southern France and northern Spain in Europe. No other northern place could have hold people at that time because the cold during the last glaciation. Scotland would have be inside the tundra limit - not even trees. I recall the film does reference Scotland 2089 or something like that anyway. They are other cave paintings in the world (I love those in Talassii plateau in Algeria, then an oasis, today a mere desert), but the paintings depicted in the movie (style and fauna) recall the European Magdaleniensis - no stylized figures as in Levant, Mediterranean or Talassii. They are theories that link these people to Basques, older people in Europe, which use a paleolithic unique lenguage - see 40,000 years old in Genographic project. Few weeks ago new datations yield an older estimates of these paintings, to 20,000 years old - perhaps even made by neanderthals!!! So science is moving faster than Scott's mind.