http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/sorry-cr...o-existed/
Quote:Sorry creationists — your favorite cave painting meme does not prove humans and dinosaurs co-existed
Quote:An ancient cave painting by Native Americans in Utah was celebrated by “Young Earth” creationists, who believe the planet is less than 10,000 years old, because the 1,000-year old picture looks, at face value, like a winged pterodactyl dinosaur.
But using new technology, scientists have debunked the claim that the picture is proof dinosaurs were living alongside humans 1,000 years ago. Using two techniques, digital photographic enhancement and X-Ray fluorescence, scientists uploaded a photograph of the cave painting into a program that highlights original pigments and removes those added later, Vocativ reports.
The result? The painting is not a pterodactyl. It appears to depict humans, small animals and a snake.
“It is not a single figure. It is not a pterodactyl,”Paul Bahn, a freelance archaeologist and co-lead researcher told LiveScience. “It’s a beautiful set of images.”