Prehistoric Cave Art
A little Spanish girl, exploring her father’s estate in 1879, found an opening in the ground into which she decided to crawl. She discovered some of the oldest art ever created, the prehistoric cave paintings near Alta Mira, Spain. Authorities initially dismissed the paintings as hoaxes, since they evidenced a degree of intricacy and proficiency not believed possible. However, after the discovery of more caves in northern Spain and southern France, such as the cave at Lascaux, art historians reexamined the caves at Alta Mira and accepted them as genuine. Scientists, having studied footprints, bones, and charcoal from the caves at Alta Mira and Lascaux, date the cave paintings between 20,000 and 10,000 BCE, or the Upper Paleolithic era. Read More...
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Two Bulls Cave painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France. [More Info] |
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Bisons Cave Painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France [More Info] |
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Falling Bison Prehistoric painting discovered in Altamira Cave, Spain. [More Info] |
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First Bull, Red and Brown Horses Cave painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France. [More Info] |
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Five Horses and Cow Cave painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France. [More Info] |
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Grazing Reindeer Cave painting discovered in Font-de-Gaume, France. [More Info] |
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Great Hall of Bulls Cave painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France. [More Info] |
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Group of Bulls, Horses and Stags Cave painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France. [More Info] |
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Horse Cave painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France. [More Info] |
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Red Bull Cave painting discovered in Lascaux, Dordogne, France [More Info] |
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