Paleolithic Cave Art Research

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This research article regarding Paleolithic cave art examines the difficulty obtaining exact dates and ages of early human cave painting throughout the world. The age of the symbolic representations can be obtained to an approximate year, within a few thousand years, using a process called uranium series dating. Eleven caves throughout Spain were analyzed to determine the relative age of the art. It was determined that the paintings could not be younger than the calcite that formed over top of the cave art, but the time between the calcite and the time the cave art was done is still unknown. This article is organized by abstract, results, and discussion. It contains many reliable sources from other scholarly articles which further backs up

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