Why children may have taken part in creating prehistoric cave art
A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...
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Children played a spiritual role in prehistoric cave art
Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?
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A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World
It’s among more than a dozen other dated cave paintings on Sulawesi that now ... and to remember and learn from the past—what theorists of early human cognition call “higher order ...
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Children participated in cave paintings because they were perceived as mediators between the physical and spiritual worlds
A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...
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Researchers Discover Paleolithic Cave Art Dated 66,000 Years Ago, Reveal Neanderthals to Be the ‘First Artists'
and red-painted speleothems in Ardales Cave, was found to be more than 64,000 years old. They predated when early humans ...
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Cave Art:
Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves ...
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Just How Old Are the Cave Paintings in Spain’s Cova Dones?
Early humans likely scooped red clay from the cave ... Determining the age of cave art is delicate work. Ruiz-Redondo and his team are awaiting a full laboratory analysis of Cova Dones ...