during the Stone Age. It is characterized by two main categories: first of all, by

portable pieces, like small figurines or decorated objects, and second of all, by cave art.

The portable art was carved out of bone, antler, stone, or modeled in clay. It has

mostly been found in Europe, Northern Africa, and Siberia. Cave art however, was

discovered mostly in northern Spain and southern France, whaich takes the form of

paintings, drawings, and engravings on the walls. There have also been pictures and

symbols engraved on rock in the open air, but not much of it has survived.

Paleolithic art was discovered in the 1860s, when French paleontologist

Edouard Lartet found decorated objects in caves in southern France. The objects were

recognized as ancient by their similarity to Stone Age tools and the bones of the Ice

Age animals. These discoveries engaged a want for digging in caves to look for such

objects, but not much attention was given to the paintings on the walls.

The discovery in 1880 of Paleolithic paintings in the Spanish cave of Altamira

was first met with great skepticism. In 1895, engravi

like the unicorn translated in a cave in Lascaux, France. The number of animals

Almost all the animals in cave paintings are drawn using their profile. Many of

the caves painted, but not lived in? Strange symbols and figures make us think that

L'art des grottes, Denis Vialou, 1998 Éditions Scala

found in the cave of Les Combarelles, such as paintings in nearby Font de Gaume, in

date back 32,000 years, making them the oldest cave paintings ever discovered.

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