Finding Altamira Page #3
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- 2016
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perhaps.
How old?
Ten thousand years. Maybe more.
This is even before the time
of Adam and Eve. How can that be?
You truly believe your cave people
could have been painters?
Whoever did this was a great artist.
As great as any in history.
Miss Maria.
Conchita, it's a miracle.
It's incredible.
If I wouldn't have seen it
with my own eyes...
I have to talk Professor Vilanova.
And then we should get in contact
with Cartailhac.
- This discovery is worthy of his genius.
- Enough!
- Yes, Cartailhac.
- Maria!
My discovery is worthy
of Cartailhac's genius.
What do you say to that?
Never heard of him.
Papa told you about the oxen?
Yes. And that you found them.
You're not cross with me?
Of course not, darling.
And you're not cross with Papa
about Adam and Eve?
Don't worry about such things.
Go to sleep.
Paleolithic, Palaeolithic.
Will you show me
your "long haired oxen", young lady?
They aren't hairy oxen, Professor,
this region during the Ice Age.
Ahah! A young archaeologist.
Look at this.
And over here.
Look at this.
Look at his head.
It looks as if it were painted
yesterday.
I wonder if this dark cave
may have preserved them
perfectly down the centuries.
Dating the work is problematic
without geological layers.
The cave was sealed and we have found
nothing more recent
than the Upper Paleolithic,
10.000 years by your calculations.
There are carvings and engravings
from this period
but they're small, portable, much like
the work of primitive peoples today.
Nothing like this.
We found this shell
just there by the wall.
Traces of colour.
Which could be red ochre.
Yes, yes, it's quite possible.
So, Professor Vilanova,
what is your opinion?
I've never seen anything like it:
It simply doesn't fit
our ideas of Prehistoric Man.
Perhaps all our ideas are wrong.
Gentlemen, please!
Respect for our distinguished visitor.
Some of you have yourselves seen
the evidence of the cave:
a polychrome wall painting
of extinct creatures
in pristine condition.
There is no other example
of such work
from the Paleolithic Era anywhere.
Because they aren't Paleolithic.
Sir.
This is Paleolithic.
And... this is Paleolithic.
I have an extensive collection
which the Council
is very welcome to see,
having made Prehistory
I realise this is a profoundly
shocking discovery.
Or an absurd mistake
which will make us Cantabrians
the laughing stock
throughout the world.
May I ask, sir, how you would account
for the paintings?
Certainly.
They are the work
of runaway slaves
when this was a Roman province
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