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[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/magic-origin-of-prehistoric-art/6957C9CD9D0F8AA743984DADE20DA9F0 by Cambridge University Press 2/1/15] | [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/magic-origin-of-prehistoric-art/6957C9CD9D0F8AA743984DADE20DA9F0 by Cambridge University Press 2/1/15] | ||
The authenticity of the prehistoric paintings of the caves of Altamira has now been fully recognized for about thirty years, and with the many similar discoveries which have been made in France and Spain an entirely new light has been thrown on the mentality of prehistoric men. We must henceforth acknowledge that they possessed artistic tastes and a well developed aesthetic sense. | The authenticity of the prehistoric paintings of the caves of Altamira has now been fully recognized for about thirty years, and with the many similar discoveries which have been made in France and Spain an entirely new light has been thrown on the mentality of prehistoric men. We must henceforth acknowledge that they possessed artistic tastes and a well developed aesthetic sense. | ||
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[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Art_History/Prehistoric_Art by WIKIBOOKS] | |||
Famous examples of Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) art can be found in France at the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet. Art from this era is also found in regions around the world, including South Africa, where finds at Blombos Cave include an engraved piece of ochre believed to be about 70,000 years old. | |||
