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		freeone3000 on July 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum When your error bars are a few hundred years or so, the few weeks between “making paint” and “using paint” isn’t terribly relevant.

thaumasiotes on July 17, 2024 [–]

Well, we can safely rule out the idea that a cave painting was made with thousand-year-old paint.

It's more difficult to rule out the idea that a thousand-year-old painting was restored with usable paint.

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