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When Ice Age art rewrote human history

Sealed away for 20,000 years, Chauvet Cave in France revealed 36,000-year-old paintings that transformed our understanding of early human creativity. The art’s sophistication shattered the idea that ...
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Archaeologists use carbon-14 to achieve first absolute dating of Paleolithic cave paintings — a bison depicted over 13,000 years ago

Deep inside a limestone hillside in France’s Dordogne valley, a bison painted in black pigment has stared out from a cave ...