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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