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'Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating. By Barbara Ehrenreich Source: theguardian.com Date: 12 December, 2019...

Earliest known cave art by modern humans found in Indonesia Source: The Guardian online Date: 11 December, 2019 Cave art depicting human-animal hybrid figures hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes has been dated to nearly 44,000 years old, making it the earliest known cave art by our species...

This was a bit of a surprise. 40,000 years old. The depiction of a now-extinct form of bovine is pretty interesting. Hope y'all find this as worthwhile as I did.

Source Paul Bahn, independent archaeologist, will be speaking on Art and Religion in the Ice Age at Art and Mind's forthcoming festival: Religion, Art and the Brain, March 10-13 at the Theatre Royal, Winchester Tickets: £8 or £10 per session or £30 day ticket. Theatre Royal Box Office: tel...

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More here. Are these the oldest known pictures of "real people"? Male and female faces can be seen in the rock. Some researchers believe they could be 15,000 years old or more – from a time when Northern Europe would have been in the grip of an Ice Age. SOURCE...