Chauuvet Cave Research Paper

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A discovery such as the Chauvet Cave, which considered the oldest known rock art place in the world, has a lot of surprising paintings that dating about 

30,000-32,000 years ago. scientist’s big knowledge helped them to have clear ideas and facts about the walls paintings because of many reasons. From the materials that have been used for the painting they were referred to the paleolithic time. For example, The scientists found out that some of the paintings has created with red ochre. While other painting has been made with charcoal. Another way of knowing the painting was by the technique and the style that used in the paintings and how they are similar to other Paleolithic artworks. Basically, the painting looked realistic and the animals

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