Rock art - Finestre sull'Arte

More than 200,000-year-old engraved stone discovered in Spain

A new find could write the history ofprehistoric art in Marbella in Spain's Malaga province all over again. During an excavation campaign at the Coto Correa archaeological site in Las Chapas, archaeologists discovered an engraved stone block whose pr...
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The oldest figurative rock artwork dates back more than 51,000 years: discovered in Indonesia

Discovered in a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the oldest known work of figurative rock art to date. The discovery was made a few years ago and had originally been dated, using a different approach, to a minimum of 43,900 thou...
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Tibet, 200,000-year-old footprints discovered: possibly the world's oldest rock artwork

In China, a group of international scholars led by Professor David Zhang of Guangzhou University's School of Geography discovered some hand and footprints that, given their arrangement, were intentionally left by their authors on a travertine boulder...
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