PHILIPPE PSAILA/SPL Paintings like this south-western France led some to mistakenly believe abstract thought first emerged in Western Europe Until 10 years ago, the only evidence of ancient cave ...

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...

The engraved turtle-like rock, contemporary with ancient European cave art, may have been central to these activities. An engraved rock with a carved symbolic turtle was placed in a niche in the ...