The First Writing
The Ancients
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Upper Paleolithic Art
Lascot is the classic one it's a relatively simple cave perhaps about 300 metres in length and it has a series of galleries these are relatively large spaces let's say about the size of three standard living rooms. These are paintings literally produced with brushes and leather pads with a wet paint they're drawings as well using dry pigments reds blacks biscuity ochre colours and they're engraved as well so in some cases difficult to see perhaps the function of some of this art was not to be seen rather like we go to a museum but the act of creation could have been important. I've been pulled those sites that you mentioned that are absolutely incredible but just describe in a bit of detail
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