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Of course, this is inevitably subjective; an attempt to read the minds of humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago from the scant markings they left behind - if they were from our species at all. But it's one of the few ways we have to start assembling hypotheses about prehistoric people's beliefs and culture, in the hope that we can one day test them with newer scientific techniques. 
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The six paintings found in the Nerja Caves, 35miles east of Malaga, are at least 42,000 years old and are the only known artistic images created by Neanderthal man, scientists believe. Via Panayiotis
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February 8, 2012 11:09 AM
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March 7, 2013 12:46 PM
Paint was the most common and most depended on way of communicating history and the knowledge and information to the modern world
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The world’s oldest known and best preserved ochre-processing tool kit is now on display at the South African Museum in Cape Town. The set was discovered at Blombos cave in the Southern Cape by a team of Wits University archaeologists in 2008.
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Prehistoric etchings found in a cave in France are the work of children as young as three years old, research suggests.
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The basic questions about early European cave art—who made it and whether they developed artistic talent swiftly or slowly—were thought by many researchers to have been settled long ago: Modern humans made the paintings, crafting brilliant artworks almost as soon as they entered Europe from Africa. Now dating experts working in Spain, using a technique relatively new to archaeology, have pushed dates for the earliest cave art back some 4000 years to at least 41,000 years ago*, raising the possibility that the artists were Neandertals rather than modern humans. And a few researchers say that the study argues for the slow development of artistic skill over tens of thousands of years.
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An ancient Greek cave preserves a Stone Age village, a burial ground, and signs of prehistoric rituals.
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The archaeology of astronomy is contentious at the best of times, but the Palaeolithic is a particularly difficult period to study, because the remains are so fragmentary and few in number. So to put this in context we need to know when the Upper Palaeolithic is.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeological research reveals that 13,000 years before CBeebies hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.
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