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The extraordinary phenomenon of Ice Age art endured for over 30,000 years of our prehistory. This book will show you how the art was discovered, how it was made, how we know its age and if it's genuine. But this art is much more than pictures and paint - it tells us more about our early ancestors than bones and tools ever will. Life during the Ice Age was a huge part of our human journey, and the people who lived then, by painting on cave walls and engraving their myths on animal bones, have reached out to us down the millennia with their stories and memories. It is unlikely we will ever know the meanings of the simple handprints or the animal silhouette paintings, or the ideas that were shared in great cave wall murals, but they are likely to be profound. And despite our inability to understand the messages, we can still marvel at the valuable gifts these Ice Age artists have bestowed on us.
Contents
Foreword
Deep time line
How was cave art discovered?
What did they draw and paint?
Drawing humans
Portable art
Techniques in cave art
What did they use to make art?
Images outside caves
How old is the art?
Fakes and forgeries
Can we know what the art means?
Conclusion
Glossary
Appendix: Further reading
Image credits
