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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

28 July 2021

Newly discovered cave art gives fresh insight into the minds of our ancestors - and upends the idea that a Stone Age cultural explosion was unique to Europe

Australia's oldest known rock art is a 17,000-year-old kangaroo

22 February 2021

A large, life-like painting of a kangaroo on the ceiling of a rock shelter is the oldest known painting in Australia, and was dated using ancient wasp nests

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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

Australia's oldest known rock art is a 17,000-year-old kangaroo

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