Cave art: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
General books on Paleolithic cave art include Peter J. Ucko and Andrée Rosenfeld, Paleolithic Cave Art (1967); Jean Clottes, Cave Art (2008); and Christine Desdemaines-Hugon, Stepping Stones: A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne (2010). Books that discuss interpretation and meanings are Jean Clottes and J. David Lewis-Williams, The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves, trans. by Sophie Hawkes (1998); J. David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (2002); and R. Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art (2005). Andrea Joyce Stone, Images from the Underworld: Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting (1995); and Jean Clottes, World Rock Art, trans. by Guy Bennett (2002), are books about rock art outside Europe.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - Cave Art. | Nov 12, 2026 | ||
| Article title updated for style. | Nov 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Communication - The materiality of lines: The kinaesthetics of bodily movement uniting dance and prehistoric cave art. | Dec 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - Cave Art. | Mar 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Cave art reveals human nature. | Jan 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Narrative cave art in Indonesia by 51,200 years ago. | Oct 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Art in caves. | Sep 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi. | Jul 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Cave Paintings Exploring the Depths of Prehistoric Cave Art. | May 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Royal Society of Chemistry - Education in Chemistry - Cave art history. | Apr 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - �Humans were not centre stage�: how ancient cave art puts us in our place. | Dec 22, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Art Story - Cave Art. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Cave Art. | Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| Revised the locations of cave paintings to include such countries as Indonesia. | May 22, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 13, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Cave Art (c.40,000-10,000 BCE). | Oct 05, 2018 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Mar 09, 2015 | ||
| Title changed from "cave painting" to "cave art" and article thoroughly revised. | Mar 06, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - History of Cave Paintings. | Nov 08, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indianetzone - Indian Cave Paintings. | Nov 08, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cultural India - Indian Art - Cave Paintings in India. | Nov 08, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Cave Art. | Nov 08, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Cave Painting. | Nov 08, 2011 | ||
| New article added. | May 20, 2011 |