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This 3,500 Year Old Painting Was Found In Cagayan: Why Is It Important?
The latest follow up to the recent series of archaeological findings of the National Museum of the Philippines sets new heights to direct rock art dating in the region
From the Archives: Radiocarbon dates established that Chauvet Cave, home of Europe's oldest cave paintings, was occupied intermittently from about 37,000 to 28,000 years ago.
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It does make more sense that it was sign language rather than them all being mutilated!
Cave Paintings May Depict Ice Age Sign Language
(Inside Science) -- Tens of thousands of years ago in what is now Europe, people held their hands against cave walls and blew a spray of paint, leaving bare rock where their hands had rested. Many of ...
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Archaeologists recreated three common kinds of Paleolithic cave lighting
Experiments could enhance our understanding of the origin of prehistoric art in caves
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Something they don't mention is the flames made the pictures 'move' too. They had a whole IMAX experience going on in there.
Scientists Recreate Stone Age Lamps and Torches to See How Ancient Artists Illuminated Caves
(Inside Science) -- Prehistoric artists wandered deep into dark caves to adorn them with paintings, engravings and other art. Now archaeologists have re-created ancient torches, lamps and fireplaces t...
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The UK's first clear examples of deer carvings from the Early Bronze Age have been found in a chance discovery by a passing amateur archaeologist
Prehistoric deer carvings discovered in Scottish Neolithic tomb in UK first
The carvings are the earliest known examples in Scotland and the first clear deer carvings from the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age in the UK
Journal of French archaeologist François Daleau.
Excursions Volume IX, February 1893 to December 1897.
Excavation notes from the prehistoric cave of Pair-non-Pair, Prignac-et-Marcamps, France. The ... View More
Excursions Volume IX, February 1893 to December 1897.
Excavation notes from the prehistoric cave of Pair-non-Pair, Prignac-et-Marcamps, France. The ... View More
