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The region of Gorny Altay in Siberia is known as a land of mountains – and caves, big and small. One of these caves, situated near the Anuy River and called the Denisova Cave, can without exaggeration be called unique. Via Christine Loew 
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Large clusters of rock art spanning thousands of years but located at the same site may hold key to detecting massive cultural changes in prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the north.
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Anthropologists working in southern France have concluded that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art.
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South African cave yields earliest evidence for human use of fire.
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Previously overlooked patterns in the cave art of southern France and Spain suggest man might have learned written communication 25,000 years earlier than we thought.
Megan Kopke's curator insight,
October 31, 2013 4:06 PM
what is considered communication? how has communication changed from pictographs to arbitrary words. When does communication also become art, as is the case with cavemen paintings or pictographs, etc.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams Trailer http://j.mp/sNDUs5 click to subscribe - Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
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Archaeologists have found cave paintings thought to be Central Europe's oldest such artwork in Baden-Württemberg’s Swabian Alps
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New dates from Geißenklösterle Cave in Southwest Germany document the early arrival of modern humans and early appearance of art and music. ANTHROPOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=anthropology
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The creative arts became possible as an evolutionary advance when humans developed the capacity for abstract thought. The human mind could then form a template of a shape, or a kind of object, or an action, and pass a concrete representation of the conception to another mind. Thus was first born true, productive language, constructed from arbitrary words and symbols. Language was followed by visual art, music, dance, and the ceremonies and rituals of religion. More on ART: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=art
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Experts have long debated whether the sophisticated animal drawings in a famous French cave are indeed the oldest of their kind in the world, and a study out Monday suggests that yes, they are.
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How do we build a world that's less dependent on fossil fuels? One solution is right under your feet. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is a very boring name for a very awesome system that turns the Earth itself into a giant battery.
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The world's oldest works of art have been found in a cave on Spain's Costa del Sol, scientists believe.
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Neuroarchaeology is an important part of my future project that I am trying to outline. Part of that project will deal with Maya iconography from a non-representational perspective. Maya iconograph...
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A new study of prehistoric horse DNA suggests that spotted horses roamed ancient Europe, and that early artists may have been reproducing what they saw rather than creating imaginary creatures.
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