Jonathan McRae
speaker
4,627 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Jonathan McRae’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 33 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.
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But it was there.
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There are clearly modern graffiti markings all over this cave, but something else too.
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But there's also th very clearly handmade scrapings in an arc.
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This is Dr.
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Barbara Oosterbeck again.
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She's an expert in ancient markings made by hand.
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And like the others, she's been involved in some fairly major discoveries.
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Right now it's hard for me to dis distinguish any marks specifically.
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What am I what am I seeing here?
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See all these markings?
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Yeah, they don't l look like someone just happened to
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Fall and grab out on the wall.
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What Barbara is showing me at this moment is these long three fingered grooves and patterns that have been left by someone trailing their fingers through what at the time would have been soft calcite rock, but has now become hard and encrusted.
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To to just challenge the thinking here, if I came here, I would have just thought that was done a few weeks ago.
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So how do we know this is old?
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Yeah, I mean it it's it's very simple.
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Remember I told you paleoanthropologists and archaeologists fight all the time?
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Well I got the sense that there was a little tension in the cave between Barbara and George over this next panel.
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George seemed to see something that Barbara didn't, and while he was enthusiastically describing what he thought he saw, I was getting side eye from Barbara that told me she didn't fully buy what he was selling.
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This section was different.
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