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cave art
noun
- paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters, especially naturalistic depictions of animals, produced by Upper Paleolithic peoples of western Europe between about 28,000 and 10,000 years ago.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cave art1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences
The existence of the images—which resemble the styles and themes found in European cave art—has been known for some time.
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Scientists have long thought that the oldest cave art was in Europe.
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Magdalenian civilization was gradually broken up, and the cave art suffered sharp decline until at length it perished utterly.
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