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Fur-clad Michelangelos
At the foot of a cliff in the Ardèche Gorges, in south-eastern France, amateur speleologists have discovered the world's oldest painted prehistoric cave. And as this ornate temple to cave painting1, this Palaeolithic2 sanctuary, slowly divulges its secrets, it is furrowing the brows of many prehistorians. Indeed, it would seem that, 31,000 years ago, prehistoric man was already painting and engraving with hitherto unsuspected skill and dexterity. We decided t ...
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