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some animals are painted on the side of a rock wall in an area that looks like it has been carved

Located in the Dordogne region in southwestern France, these cave paintings are beautifully perseved and estimated to be over 20,000 years old. Most paintings inside the cave depict large animals that were native to the region, representing the environment around the people who painted these elaborate works of early art.

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Get the free 2-year set of blogs from DeconstructingTime in a PDF eBook. Click now to view a PDF version online and/or to download the PDF file. More than 10,000 years before the earliest beginnings of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia and about 5,000 years even before the start of agriculture, cavemen were creating sophisticated and accurate paintings in color of animals that they hunted and ate. In the pitch dark of the Altamira cave in Western Spain -- two hundred meters or so from…

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an animal that is standing in the grass with its head turned to look like it has long horns

Niaux Cave is located in the northern foothills of the Pyrenees northern foothills of the Pyrenees, in France. Niaux Cave is one of many in this region of France, and is one of Europe's most impressive Palaeolithic rock art galleries of cave art paintings.

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