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Nov 11, 2022 · Here are seven of the most fascinating cave paintings and rock art sites from around the world. 1. The Altamira Cave Paintings, Spain. The rock art at Altamira, Spain was the first in the world to be recognized as prehistoric artwork, but it took years for that fact to become a consensus.
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We’re on the island of Sulawesi, in Indonesia, an hour’s drive north of the bustling port of Makassar. We approach the nearest karst undeterred by a group of large black macaques that...
- Caves of Lascaux, France. In 1940 a group of schoolboys in the Dordogne region of France slid through a fox hole and discovered the now much-lauded Lascaux Caves, a cave complex adorned with impeccably preserved prehistoric art.
- Cueva de las Manos, Argentina. Found on a remote stretch of the Pinturas River in Patagonia, Argentina, is a prehistoric cave painting site known as the Cueva de las Manos.
- El Castillo, Spain. In 2012 archaeologists concluded that a painting in southern Spain’s El Castillo cave was more than 40,000 years old. At the time, that made El Castillo the site of the oldest known cave painting on Earth.
- Serra da Capivara, Brazil. According to UNESCO, the Serra de Capivara National Park in northeast Brazil contains the largest and oldest collection of cave paintings anywhere in the Americas.
Some point to these prehistoric paintings as possible examples of creativity, spirituality, and sentimental thinking in prehistoric humans. The oldest known are more than 40,000 years old (art of the Upper Paleolithic) and found in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia).
Sep 21, 2024 · Lascaux, cave containing one of the most outstanding displays of prehistoric art yet discovered. Lascaux, together with some two dozen other painted caves and 150 prehistoric settlements in France’s Vezere valley, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979.
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The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists. The painting of a wild pig and three...
The world’s oldest known cave paintings, to date, have been discovered nestled within the limestone karst formations of the Maros-Pangkep region. These artworks have captivated...
