The bones were so old that they could not be dated by carbon-14, which can measure about 40,000 years. The Weak Radiation Laboratory in France tested them by a more sensitive uraniumthorium method, and came back with a staggering date of 300,000 years. A cave called Grotto of the Cosmos at nearby Xique-Xique contained paintings of suns, stars and comets, and this is what archaeologists believe is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Americas. One, about 10,000 years ago, made the pain tings. In the grotto's dim light, a red comet 4.5 feet long stretches across the low ceiling, against a painted backdrop of stars.
Red suns rise and set amid figures of lizards, a creature traditionally associated with the sun.
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