rock paintings are located is an area of massively sculpted sandstone rock formations clustered around caveart rich bhimbetka hill again gsi scope was limited to quaternary he saidsuddenly time lapse has a whole new meaning at bhimbetka the ancient cave art is young compared to dickinsonia according to unesco the bhimbetka rock art is believed to date from the mesolithic period around 10000 years ago through the chalcolithic microlithic and right into the historic medieval and recent historic periods cosmogenic nuclide dating is being deployed to determine time of earliest human culture indias oldest stoneage tools up to 15 million years old are at a prehistoric site near chennai said otadoes asi have any plans for it we have received no request for sampling of dickinsonia said asi bhopal superintendent piyush bhatt