Archaeologica.org

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1965

Britain had a flourishing Stone Age culture but unlike prehistoric sites in France and Spain no cave paintings or carvings had been found until recently, when the discovery of Stone Age carvings of animals and humans at Cresswell Crags, near Sheffield in April 2003 launched a new hunt for prehistoric cave art.

This may be some of the earliest representation of the reoccupation of the Brithish Isles after glaciation.

Beagle wrote:This may be some of the earliest representation of the reoccupation of the British Isles after glaciation.

but perhaps not the most impressive? I obviously haven't seen the research (which I am assuming exists) that demonstrates human agency in this instance.

Daily Mail wrote:when the discovery of Stone Age carvings of animals and humans at Cresswell Crags, near Sheffield in April 2003 launched a new hunt for prehistoric cave art.

see here for a scathing criticism of the original assumptions made

http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/cara13/web/Ripoll.html

Bob Smart, curator of Cheddar Caves Museum wrote:"The carving is in an inner cave which would have been used by shamans for religious purposes such as invoking animal spirits.

This is pure speculation and has no basis in fact.

And yet again there are more comments blurted out as statements of fact which don't take into consideration the sobering effect of taphonomy upon the archaeological record.