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  2. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    In Malaysia, the Tambun rock art is dated at 2000 years, and those in the Painted Cave at Niah Caves National Park are 1200 years old. The anthropologist Ivor Hugh Norman Evans visited Malaysia in the early 1920s and found that some of the tribes (especially Negritos) were still producing cave paintings and had added depictions of modern ...

  3. Art of the Upper Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia. Gabarnmung, or Nawarla Gabarnmung, is an Aboriginal archaeological and rock art site in south-western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia's Northern Territory. The rock shelter features prehistoric paintings of fish, including the barramundi ...

  4. Caverna da Pedra Pintada - Wikipedia

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    Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Painted Rock Cave), is an archaeological site in northern Brazil with evidence of human presence dating ca. 11,200 years ago. [1] [2]This find has challenged previous thinking about patterns of human settlement in South America.

  5. Chauvet Cave - Wikipedia

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    The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [2]

  6. Prehistoric art - Wikipedia

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    Laas Geel's rock art is estimated to date back to somewhere between 9,000–8,000 and 3,000 BCE. In 2008, archaeologists also announced the discovery of cave paintings in Somalia's northern Dhambalin region, which the researchers suggest includes one of the earliest known depictions of a hunter on horseback. The rock art is in the Ethiopian ...

  7. Archaeologists Found a Stunning Ancient Rock That May Reveal ...

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    Rock art found in southeastern Venezuela may have come from a previously unknown culture. Researchers believe that the roughly 4,000-year-old art signifies a central dispersion point from which ...

  8. Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin - Wikipedia

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    The group of over 700 sites of prehistoric Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, also known as Levantine art, were collectively declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. The sites are in the eastern part of Spain and contain rock art dating to the Upper Paleolithic or (more likely) Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age .

  9. Roca dels Moros - Wikipedia

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    The Roca dels Moros or Caves of El Cogul is a rock shelter containing paintings of prehistoric Levantine rock art and Iberian schematic art. The site is in El Cogul, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. Since 1998 the paintings have been protected as part of the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.