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Animals carved into stone were created to be placed around fires at night, allowing the flickering light to play across them, researchers suggest.
Animal portraits may have been placed close to flickering fires to appear animated.
More than a century after first discovering cave art dating back to the Stone Age in Italy’s Romanelli Cave (they were found in 1905), a team of archaeologists, geologists, and paleontologists have recently found more drawings. The newly discovered Paleolithic art includes geometric designs, a bovid (hoofed mammal), and a bird. The cave, which is... Read more »
Researchers have found dozens of new rock art panels at Romanelli Cave in Italy which could evidence a common Paleolithic Eurasian rock art tradition.
Archeologists have discovered more ancient cave art in Italy, more than 100 years after the first images were discovered there.