In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...
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12 Astounding Facts about the Lascaux Cave Paintings
Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The astonishing ...
A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...
To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...
Several ancient cave paintings were recently discovered along the coast of Spain by researchers using a pioneering new technique. By flying drones into otherwise inaccessible mountain terrain, ...
Engravings discovered in La Roche-Cotard cave Jean-Claude Marquet, CC-BY 4.0 More than 57,000 years have passed since Paleolithic humans stood before the cave wall, with its soft, chalky rock ...
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