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Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? What meaning and messages did the cavemen want these paintings to convey? In addition, how did these perfect drawings come about at a time when man's sole purpose was surviving? And why, some ten thousand years later, did startlingly similar animal paintings appear once again, on dark cave walls?<br><br>Scholars and archaeologists
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- Author
- Bertrand David; Jean-Jacques Lefrère
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781628729009
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Body Mind & Spirit, Science, Art
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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