Prehistoric cave paintings

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Prehistoric cave paintings are vivid and mysterious survivals from some of humanity’s oldest art. Here are seven of the most fascinating.

An eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art featuring animals and humans, which is now being called the 'Sistine Chapel of the ancients', has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

For a long time, we thought our species were the only artists

'The Cave of Hands' in Argentina. These Prehistoric rock paintings of human hands were created around 9,000 to 13,000 years ago.

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Lascaux is located in south-west France. The site has earned international fame as a tourist hot-spot for its prehistoric cave paintings. Situated near the village of Montignac, the Paleolithic art is estimated to be a good 15,000 years old.

Altamira Cave is 270 metres long and consists of a series of twisting passages and chambers. The main passage varies from two to six metres in height. Archaeological excavations in the cave floor found rich deposits of artefacts from the Upper Solutrean (ca 18 500 years ago) and Lower Magdalenean (between ca 16 500 and 14 000 years ago). Both periods belong to the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. In the millennia between these two occupations, the cave was evidently inhabited only by wild…

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When was art born? Have you ever thought about art in that aspect? Was the birth of art incidental or something that came about due to deliberate thought and