Prehistoric clay wall shows how condescending we are to our ansestors

Painting seems to have been invented 40,000-30,000 years ago, and these scientists are surprised by this?

The State Museum for Prehistory in the eastern German city of Halle put part of the prehistoric clay wall on display on Monday. The wall was apparently part of a sprawling, Iron Age human settlement.

“We know now that prehistoric times were not grey but rather that prehistoric houses were colourfully painted,” Saxony-Anhalt state archaeologist, Harald Meller, said.

Gee, they were people too. What a shock.

But of course, we think only the rich would do such a thing:

“The painted wall possibly decorated the front of an important house,” Meller said.

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