Brushwork beats boffins!
‘In one of the most recent cases of anomalous dating, rock paintings found
in the South African bush in 1991 were analysed by Oxford University’s radio
carbon accelerator unit who dated them as being around 1,200 years old. This finding
was significant because it meant the paintings would have been the first bushman
painting found in open country. However, publicity of the find attracted the attention
of Mrs Joan Ahrens, a Capetown resident, who recognised the paintings as being produced
by her at art classes and later stolen from her garden by vandals. The significance
of incidents such as this is that mistakes can be uncovered only in those rare cases
where chance grants us some external methods of checking the dating technique.’
Richard Milton, The Facts of Life—Shattering the Myth of Darwinism,
Fourth Estate, London, 1992, pp. 33–34.
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