Prehistoric rock art gave hunter-gatherers 'multisensory experience'

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Prehistoric rock art gave hunter-gatherers 'multisensory experience'

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ArchaeologyEnglish · 3 days ago

The remarkable rock art sites—dated to between 5000 B.C. and 1500 B.C.—consist of vertical cliffs rising directly from lakes.

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Were all neolithic musicians into rock music?
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Thousands of years before someone invented licking toads. Pretty impressive.
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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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