Note: The best book on cave paintings and only one that avoids the mystic mumbo-jumbo projection of other books is R. Dale Guthrie’s The Nature of Paleolithic Art. Tags: cave paintings; ...

From Cave Art To Extinct Volcanoes Nearby the Chauvet cave is the Bas-Vivarais volcanic field only 35 kilometers away . Radiocarbon dating of the cave spray paintings put their age between 34 to ...

A 2018 study dates the oldest found cave art to 64,000 years ago, predating modern humans. Neanderthals painted it in a cave in what is now Spain. What may be the oldest surviving cave art by early ...

Assuming the dating is accurate, then these paintings would be the earliest known cave art in the world. SEE ALSO: The accidental library: Why Elon Musk launched books to space that could last 14 ...