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Cave art located in eight caves in Ireland may indicate that people were there thousands of years before conventional views suggest. The findings support a daring hypothesis that Ice Age hunter-gatherers traveled from Wales to Ireland across a land bridge now beneath the sea. According to the Lost Land Bridge Project, the art in these caves dates back to at least 15,000 years ago, around 5,000 years before the previous oldest example of humans in Ireland. Eight Caves Found with a Welsh-Trained Model BBC Wales reports that the research team were able to analyze the characteristics of known cave art sites of south Wales using a computer model, which compiled a list of 28 promising caves in southwestern Ireland to