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Ahead of the festival’s return to Worthy Farm, Mark Beaumont picks some of Glastonbury’s greatest ever music moments ...
My dad stays at a residence where he gets 247 care I have discovered that the best time to visit him is between 1030 am and noon At 1030 am he has just finished his breakfast or is toward the end of f ...
Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world ...
Plaquette 355 of the Gönnersdorf schist plaquettes, which are believed to show engravings depicting fishing practices from the Stone Age. Image credit: Robitaille et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0.
The images on rock in Spain and France were so strikingly modern that some of them were used as advertisement art on cigarette packages. But they aren’t forgeries. This is 17,000 years into the ...
Breathtaking prehistoric paintings have been discovered on the walls of caves across Europe, Africa and Australasia, yet the meanings and functions of these Stone-Age masterpieces remain a topic ...
It's a typical evening at the Hohle Fels cave, around 38,000BC. Outside is a barren expanse of frigid steppe – a frozen landscape with few trees, stalked by cave lions and cave bears.But within ...
Using stone and bone tools, like those found in the 16,8000-year-old La Garma cave dwelling, they hunted animals like bison and deer and used fire to cook and eat their remains. These prehistoric ...
In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock walls. Previous research has assigned ages to this art based on the ages of nearby archaeological artifacts within the caves, but ...
A close look at 7,000-year-old grinding stones left in ancient firepits shows wandering herders in northern Saudi Arabia carried heavy tools for working on bones, plants and rocks.
We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated art. From Ireland to ...