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How Do Scientists Date Ancient Cave Paintings?

How Do Scientists Date Ancient Cave Paintings?

Annette Uy

Imagine stumbling into a shadowy cavern, your flashlight beam dancing over walls alive with the ghosts of prehistoric art. The colors—ochre reds, charcoal blacks, chalky whites—seem as vivid as if painted yesterday, yet these masterpieces could be tens of thousands of years old. But how do we know? The story of dating ancient cave paintings ...

Lascaux

Lascaux, France – The Cave That Holds 17,000-Year-Old Prehistoric Art

Suhail Ahmed

High in the limestone of France’s Dordogne, a hidden gallery froze a moment in human imagination and kept it sealed for roughly seventeen thousand years. When local teenagers stumbled on Lascaux in 1940, they opened not just a cave but a vault of ancient minds at work. Since then, Lascaux has become a scientific tightrope: ...