
Cave paintings are paintings found on cave walls and ceilings, and especially refer to those of prehistoric origin. The earliest such figurative paintings in Europe date back to the Aurignacian period, approximately 30,000 to 32,000 years ago, and are found in the Chauvet Cave in France. The exact purpose of the paleolithic cave paintings is not k...
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(from the article `archaeology`) ...Neolithic). In the last quarter of the 19th century remarkable Paleolithic discoveries were made in France and Spain; these included the discovery ... Cave art was produced almost exclusively in western Europe, where, by the end of the Aurignacian Period, hundreds of paintings, engravings, and ... ...
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