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Sunday, 15 November 2026, 16:01 (04:01 PM) GMT, day 319 of 2026
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• Scientists Solve 30,000-Year-Old ‘Venus’ Statue Mystery, Study Says -- VICE (01 March 2022)
  
  
• The microstructure and the origin of the Venus from Willendorf -- Scientific Reports (28 February 2022)
  
  
• Inside the Indonesian cave where oldest animal art was found [pigs] -- BBCnews (25 October 2021)
  
  
• The Venus of Willendorf and Other Voluptuous Ancient Figures May Have Been ‘Ideological Tools’ to Shape Body-Image Norms -- ArtNet (04 December 2020)
  
  
• What Ancient Rock Art Reveals About a Wetter Arabia -- Inside Science (07 July 2016)
  
  
• Rocky Future for Somalia's Ancient Cave Art -- Art Daily (27 June 2016)
  
  
• Spanish Archaeologists Discover Cave Art to Rival Country's Best -- Guardian (27 May 2016)
  
  
• Highest-Altitude Prehistoric Rock Art Revealed -- LiveScience (26 May 2016)
  
  
  • Abri Faravel: Photos of Prehistoric Rock Paintings-- LiveScience (26 May 2016)
    
    
• Stone Age Artists Used Rock Art as a Billboard -- ScienceNordic (16 April 2016)
  
  
• Scientists Seek to Resurrect the Aurochs, the Extinct Beast That Inspired Cave Paintings -- Washington Post (04 April 2016)
  
  
• 13,000-Year-Old Rock Art Shows Prehistoric Settlement 'Frozen in Time' -- Telegraph (02 December 2015)
  
  
• Looking at the Camp: Paleolithic Depiction of a Hunter-Gatherer Campsite -- PLoS ONE (02 December 2015)
  
  
• Video Highlights Research on Aboriginal Rock Art -- Phys.org (02 October 2015)
  
  
• Palaeolithic Art Discovered in Cantabrian Cave -- Past Horizons (13 March 2015)
  
  
• Rock Art on Earth Draws Scientists to Ancient Lakes -- LiveScience (30 January 2015)
  
  
• Organic matter identified in Levantine art may lead to new interpretations [Valltorta-Gassulla, Spain] -- Past Horizons (12 November 2014)
  
  
• Was Prehistoric Rock-Art Inspired by Ghostly Sound of Stampeding Animals? -- Telegraph (28 October 2014)
  
  
• Hard to Walk in Ancestral Moccasins -- ScienceNordic (26 March 2014)
  
  
• The Secret Story of the Venus of Willendorf -- Past Horizons (13 February 2014)
  
  
• Were the First Artists Mostly Women? -- National Geographic News (08 October 2013)
  
  
• N. America's Oldest Known Petroglyphs Discovered In Nevada -- NPR (16 August 2013)
  
  
• Oldest North American Rock Art May Be 14,800 Years Old -- National Geographic News (15 August 2013)
  
  
• Were cave-painters on DRUGS? New study claims paintings show prehistoric man was 'high' on psychedelic plants -- Daily Mail (17 July 2013)
  
  
• Turing instabilities in biology, culture, and consciousness? On the enactive origins of symbolic material culture -- Adaptive Behavior (15 July 2013)
  
  
• Prehistoric cave art in the Dordogne -- Guardian (25 May 2013)
  
  
• Cave Paintings in Mexico: Carvings Uncovered in Burgos -- BBC News (22 May 2013)
  
  
• Neanderthal Culture: Old Masters -- Nature (15 May 2013)
  
  
• 7,000 BC: The Dawn of Cinema Brought to Life -- Past Horizons (10 March 2013)
  
  
• Panther Cave Rock Art Recorded in 3D -- Past Horizons (07 March 2013)
  
  
• Prehistoric Cave Art May Have Served as an Early Form of Animation, Magazine Says -- Washington Post (21 January 2013)
  
  
• Stone-Age Cinema: Cave Art Conceals First Animations -- NewScientist (02 January 2013)
  
  
• In Search of the World's Oldest Cave Etching -- NewScientist (13 December 2012)
  
  
• Mega-Drought Triggered Collapse of Prehistoric Aboriginal Society -- Past Horizons (12 December 2012)
  
  
• When Homo Sapiens Hit Upon the Power of Art -- Guardian (08 December 2012)
  • Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – in pictures -- Guardian (08 December 2012)
    
    
• Cavemen Trump Modern Artists at Animal Drawing -- Discovery News (06 December 2012)
  
  
• 'Palaeo-Porn': We've Got It All Wrong -- New Scientist (13 November 2012)
  
  
• Zimbabwe's Ancient Rock Art – Audio Slideshow -- Guardian (07 November 2012)
  
  
• Oldest Spanish Human Figurine Found -- Past Horizons (28 October 2012)
  
  
• First Epigravettian Ceramic Figurines from Europe (Vela Spila, Croatia) -- PLoS ONE (24 July 2012)
  
  
• Prehistoric cave paintings ANIMATED under flicker of torchlight -- LiveJournal (17 June 2012)
  
  
• Cave Art Appreciation Opens Ancient Human Minds to Us -- New Scientist (21 June 2012)
  
  
• Oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia -- Past Horizons (18 June 2012)
  
  
• Protecting Palaeolithic Rock Art in Egypt -- Past Horizons (11 April 2012)
  
  
• Remarkable Russian Petroglyphs -- Past Horizons (18 March 2012)
  
  
• Major Philanthropic Gift for Indigenous Rock Art Research -- Past Horizons (28 February 2012)
  
  
• Stone Age Pebble Holds Mysterious Meaning [Klasies River Cave, South Africa]-- Discovery News (23 February 2012)
  
  
• 'Little Horny Man:' Oldest Rock Carving of Americas -- Discovery News (23 February 2012)
  
  

• Ancient Cave Paintings in Peril Again, Scientists Say -- Live Science (06 October 2011)
  
  
• Ancient figurines were toys not mother goddess statues, say experts as 9,000-year-old artefacts are discovered -- Daily Mail (10 September 2009)
  
  
• Ancient horses' spotted history reflected in cave art -- BBC News (07 November 2011)
  
  
• Ancient 'paint factory' unearthed -- BBC News (13 October 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Rock Art's Colours Come from Microbes -- BBC News (27 December 2010)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find Ancient 'Cave Art' in the Dordogne -- BBC News (29 September 2011)
  
  
• Archaeologists find Ice Age painting in Central Europe -- Past Horizons (10 November 2011)
  
  
• Art Rocks in Saudi Arabia -- Past Horizons (22 November 2011)
  
  
• Austrians Fete Voluptuous, Prehistoric Venus -- ABC News (8/7/08)
  
  
• Bradshaw Foundation -- directory of primitive and ancient art
  
  
• Bringing Ancient Rock Art Into the Digital Age -- Past Horizons (09 July 2011)
  
  
• Campaign to Save Australia's Rock Art -- Past Horizons (01 June 2011)
  
  
• Carving Found in Gower Cave could Be Oldest Rock Art [in Britain] -- BBC News (25 July 2011)
  
  
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams Delves Deep Into Cinema's Foundations -- Guardian (14 February 2011)
  
  
• Cavemen, Cave Bears Battled Over Turf -- Discovery News (26 April 2011)
  
  
• Cave Painting -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Cave Paintings: Behind the Artists: Photos -- Discovery News (17 November 2011)
  
  
• Chauvet Cave (Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave)
  
  
• Earliest American Art: Mammoth on Mammoth -- Discovery News (22 June 2011)
  
  
• Earliest Evidence for Magic Mushroom Use in Europe -- NewScientist (06 March 2011)
  
  
• Emotions in Stone -- Past Horizons (19 August 2011)
  
  
• Etched ostrich eggs illustrate human sophistication -- BBC News (02 March 2010)
  
  
• The First Human Creations -- D. I. Loizos
  
  
• First Neanderthal Cave Paintings Discovered in Spain -- New Scientist (10 February 2012)
  
  
• Florida Fossil Hunter Gets Credit For Big Find -- NPR (25 July 2011)
  
  
• Forty New Rock-Art Sites Recorded in Mexico -- Past Horizons (08 January 2012)
  
  
• French Bid to Save Rock Art -- Nature (22 September 2010)
  
  
• Fungus Threatens Ancient French Cave Art -- Discovery News (2009-02-27)
  
  
• Giedion, Sigfried. The Eternal Present: The Beginnings of Art. NY: Pantheon, 1962.
  
  
• Hand Stencils Through Time -- National Geographic News (26 June 2009)
  
  
• Hopi Petroglyph Sites Web Portal Launched -- Past Horizons (24 January 2012)
  
  
• How the Alexander Mosaic Was Seen -- Discovery News (08 January 2010)
  

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  • Grotte de Lascaux -- Show Caves of France
    
    
  • Lascaux -- U.S. Geological Survey
    
    
  • Paleolithic Images -- Paleo-Psychology
    
    
• In Stone Age Caves, Art and Music Mixed -- Discovery News (7/1/08)
  
  

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• The Lady of Villers-Carbonnel -- Past Horizons (13 December 2011)
  
  
• Lascaux Cave
  
  
  • The Cave of Lascaux -- French Ministry of Culture and Communication
    
    
  • The paleolithic painted cave of Lascaux -- Guillaume Pierre
    
    
• Leopard spotted horses did exist in the Palaeolithic -- Past Horizons (09 November 2011)
  
  
• Links to Rock Art Sites -- Piedra Pintada Books
  
  
• Mammoth Art in America, or Mammoth Fraud?-- National Geographic Blog (10 June 2009)
  
  
• Mothers of Time -- Canadian Museum of Civilization (Registration Required)
  
  
• New Women of the Ice Age -- Discover (1 April 1998)
  
  
• Oldest American Art Found on Mammoth Bone -- National Geographic News (22 June 2011)
  
  
• Oldest Art in Americas Found on Mammoth Bone? -- National Geographic News (10 June 2009)
  
  
• Oldest "Art Studio" Found; Evidence of Early Chemistry -- National Geographic News (13 October 2011)
  
  
• Oldest Rock Art in Egypt Discovered -- Past Horizons (20 November 2011)
  
  
• Petroglyphs and Rock Art Links -- Footsteps of Man
  
  
• Place, Evolution, and Rock Art Heritage Unit -- Griffith University, Brisbane, Ausralia
  
  
• Prehistoric Cave Art of Niaux: Panorama -- National Geographic
  
  
• Prehistoric cave etchings 'created by three-year-olds' -- BBC News (29 September 2011)
  
  
• Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female -- National Geographic News (16 June 2009)
  
  
• Prehistoric Humans Took in Art Shows -- Discovery News (29 June 2010)
  
  
• The Prehistory of Cartoons -- Science (29 July 2009)
  
  
• Primitive Cinema Used Echoes and Rock Engravings -- Live Science (08 July 2010)
  
  
• Religious Beliefs Are the Basis of the Origins of Palaeolithic Art -- EurekAlert (26 March 2010)
  
  
• Romanian Cave May Boast Central Europe's Oldest Cave Art -- Science (21 June 2010)
  
  
• Show Caves of France
  
  
  • France by Region
    
    
  • Map of France
    
    
  • Grotte Chauvet
    
    
  • Grotte de Niaux
    
    
• Signs of Consciousness -- University of Waterloo (Lascaux and other sites in France, and articles)
  
  
• Stone Age Art Caves May Have Been Concert Halls -- National Geographic News (7/2/08)
  
  
• Stone Age Fertility Ritual Object Found -- Discovery News (04 February 2011)
  
  
• Stone Man Joins Carved Animals in Neolithic Farmyard -- Guardian (10 September 2009)
  
  
• Venus Figurines
  
  
  • From Venus Figurines through Time -- The Mother Goddess -- Adrienne Ambrose, Richard Effland, Michael Mayer
    
    
  • Self-Representation in Upper Paleolithic Female Figurines -- LeRoy McDermott
    
    
  • Significance of the Gravettian Figurines -- Mothers of Time
    
    
• Vienna Celebrates Venus Centenary -- BBC News (8/7/08)
  
  
• Werner Herzog on the Birth of Art -- Archaeology Magazine (01 March 2001)
  • The famed director of more than 60 films speaks with ARCHAEOLOGY Senior Editor Zach Zorich about Chauvet Cave
    
    
• Werner Herzog Releases Ancient Paintings from History -- NewScientist (16 March 2011)