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Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why
Environment 15 November 2019 By Colin Barras A replica of a Lascaux cave paintingPHILIPPE PSAILA/SCIENCE PHOTOStone Age occupants of Europe had a strange fixation on horses. Almost one in every three animals they depicted on cave walls was a horse and the images are often larger and occupy more prominent positions than those of other…
Environment
15 November 2019
By Colin Barras
PHILIPPE PSAILA/SCIENCE PHOTO
Stone Age occupants of Europe had a strange fixation on horses. Almost one in every three animals they depicted on cave walls was a horse and the images are often larger and occupy more prominent positions than those of other animals. However, why the horse loomed so large in ancient minds may remain forever a mystery.
Since the 1990s, Georges Sauvet at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France, has been compiling a database of European Stone Age (or Palaeolithic) art. Today that database contains information on more than 4700 drawings, …
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