The skeleton from South Africa which may be the… The Chauvet cave in southern France is home to some of the earliest known man-made paintings, dating back some 32,000 years.
A team of scientists is studying the works in order to find out more about their history. Their work will help build a reconstruction site for visitors in years to come.
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