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After all, since the dawn of our species, new technologies from cave painting to computing have created new possibilities and inevitably shut down old ones.
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Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Sinuous lines hold everything together, a joyous stew of colors and floral patterns that sit inside and outside the blocky human and animal figures that could have dropped in from a comic book or a prehistoric cave painting.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 5 June 2025
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‘Unusual’ ancient graves discovered during school construction in France.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
In 2022, a massive Spanish flag was spray-painted over a cave painting at a nearby site, Gizmodo reported.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
Another cave painting in Sulawesi was re-dated using the new technology to be at least 48,000 years old, all of which predate the earliest, undisputed European cave paintings.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 5 July 2024
For example, Cro-Magnons were dark skinned and lived in huts, not caves, and had a virtuosity in cave painting which could not be reproduced today, one expert says.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Feb. 2024
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Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Sinuous lines hold everything together, a joyous stew of colors and floral patterns that sit inside and outside the blocky human and animal figures that could have dropped in from a comic book or a prehistoric cave painting.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 5 June 2025
Read Next World Looters steal 500-year-old cave painting using electric saw, Mexico officials say
January 10, 2025 2:32 PM
Read Next
World
‘Unusual’ ancient graves discovered during school construction in France.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
In 2022, a massive Spanish flag was spray-painted over a cave painting at a nearby site, Gizmodo reported.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
Another cave painting in Sulawesi was re-dated using the new technology to be at least 48,000 years old, all of which predate the earliest, undisputed European cave paintings.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 5 July 2024
For example, Cro-Magnons were dark skinned and lived in huts, not caves, and had a virtuosity in cave painting which could not be reproduced today, one expert says.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Feb. 2024
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“Cave painting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cave%20painting. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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