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East Timor's 12,000-year-old cave art

Rock art up to 12,000 years old has been found in caves in East Timor. They include some of the oldest pieces of art in the region.
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Cave paintings reveal clues to mystery Ice Age beast

Cave art from the Ice Age has helped solve the mysterious origins of Europe's largest land mammal. The modern European bison, now found only in protected reserves, once roamed widely on the continent.
Studies of ancient DNA show the bison arose from interbreeding between the extinct steppe bison and the auroch, about 120,000 years ago.
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A drawing of a volcano erupting in the Chauvet caves in France has been dated back between 30,000 and 40,000 years - a time when they were occupied by humans.
The original drawings, which also included depictions of animals and handprints, were found in 1994, but researchers have been unable to draw a conclusion of what many of the abstract images are.
However, a geological survey conducted in the Bas-Vivarais area revealed that there was a major volcanic eruption 35 kilometres away from the cave, according to the research published in PLOS One.
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Scientists have identified some of the earliest cave paintings produced by humans.

The artworks are in a rural area on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi.
Australian and Indonesian scientists have dated layers of stalactite-like growths that have formed over coloured outlines of human hands.
Early artists made them by carefully blowing paint around hands that were pressed tightly against the cave walls and ceilings. The oldest is at least 40,000 years old.
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Prehistoric rock art is discovered in Brecon Beacons

Prehistoric rock art discovered in the Brecon Beacons was probably a primitive waymarker used by early farming communities to help travellers find their way around the ritualised landscape of ancient Britain, experts revealed today.
Geologist Alan Bowring noticed the series of prehistoric engravings which are thought to have been made by prehistoric farming communities thousands of years ago.
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Researchers from the University of Tübingen have successfully reattached the newly discovered head of a prehistoric mammothivory figurine discovered in 1931. The head was found during renewed excavations at Vogelherd Cave, site of the original dig in 1931. The recent excavations, between 2005 and 2012, have yielded a number of important finds. The discovery of this ivory head helps to complete a figurine which now can be recognized as a lion - and demonstrates that it is possible to reassemble often fragmentary figurines from the earlier excavation. The new discovery is presented in the 2013 edition of the journal 'Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg'.
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Cave paintings in Mexico: Carvings uncovered in Burgos

Archaeologists in Mexico have found 4,926 well-preserved cave paintings in the north-eastern region of Burgos.
The images in red, yellow, black and white depict humans, animals and insects, as well as skyscapes and abstract scenes.
The paintings were found in 11 different sites - but the walls of one cave were covered with 1,550 scenes.
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Ice Age Art: Sculptures and carvings dating back thousands of years on display

Extraordinary pieces of art created between 10,000 to 40,000 years ago are to be displayed at the British Museum. The collection gathers pieces on loan from museums all over Europe. The work will be show alongside modern pieces by Mondrian, Matisse and Henry Moore, who in particular felt the influence of the ancient art. The exhibition is open from February 7 and continues until May 26.
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Ancient rock art uncovered in Evanton

The highest concentration of ancient rock art ever discovered in the Highlands has been found on hillside farmland in Ross-shire, it has been revealed. Bronze Age cupmarks carved into rocks up to 5,000 years ago have been found on twenty-eight separate sites on Swordale Hill outside Evanton.
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Prehistoric rock art found in caves on Terceira Island - Azores

The president of the Portuguese Association of Archeological Research (APIA), Nuno Ribeiro, revealed Monday having found rock art on the island of Terceira, supporting his believe that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years, Lusa reported.
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