Compliments to your discovery Dr. Kamat. Your topic interested me, because I am in the midst of reading an article entitled "The Way We Were" which discusses prehistoric art. For what it is worth, and to be helpful, the dates in the article I am reading are as follows.
Anthropologists have found Homo sapiens sapiens - Cro-Magnon skeletons in South Africa dating to 50,000 ago and in North Africa dating to 40,000 BCE. Cro-Magnons made their first appearance in Europe 35,000 BCE. Prior to that, the article reports humans outside Africa was Homo sapiens neanderthal. I would appreciate if you could enlighten me on the name of the sub-species of "humans entered Goa 60-80,000 years BCE". As you well know, the 10,000-year Ice Age ended about 7,000 years ago. Your Australian expert may be an authority on Rock Art. But the experts on Ice Age Art are scattered across Europe, specially in France (like the Museum of National Antiquities outside Paris). You may like to exchange notes and pictures of the art (and details on the dwelling sites) with the European experts who have been working on Ice Age art. Hope the information is useful. Regards, GL ------ On Sat, 7/3/10, Dr.Nandkumar Kamat wrote: On June 25 th I made an important discovery on Bambolim plateau which pushes back the history of human colonization of Tiswadi island to 10000 BCE (humans entered Goa 60-80000 years BCE) It was the discovery of five groups of linear stone cupules...vestiges of prehistoric rock art, which I have dated to mesolithic-early neolithic period. these site was known to have a microlithic industry. I have already sent the pictures and details to IFRAO chairman Australian rock art researcher Dr. Robert Brednarick and awaiting his comments
