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tiompan Apr 16, 2008 18:00:52
Replying to theCaptain

theCaptain wrote:
On my travels through France, I found these.

http://www.megalithic.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=15185

From talking to the chap there (Jonny Ferré) I am sure he told me that there was some evidence for this somewhere, and it was not the only place I saw painted stones like this.

Do you know when they were painted ? Most of the painting of B.A. Scandanavian rockart was done last century . Doesn't mean theywern't painted originally we don't know that but essentially ,it's vandalism .

T theCaptain
theCaptain Apr 17, 2008 17:11:38
Replying to tiompan

well, those particular stones are modern representations of what they think might have been...

This is all at the CAIRN (Centre Archéologique d'Initiation et de Recherche sur le Néolithique) centre in Vendée, which is not only a museum with the usual displays of things and exhibitions, but is a research and learning centre.

The stones have been painted with what they think might be real neolithic paints and designs, with the paints based on the same sort of thing as the ancient cave paintings are.

I am sure they didn't just make it all up.