June 17, 2012Cave 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.
