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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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Origin of cave art

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby cave art

Cavan, cavate, cavatelli, cavatina, cave, cave art, caveat, caveat emptor, caveator, cave bear, cave canem
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