Bidzar: the enigmatic engravings of Cameroon's marble
Near the village of Bidzar, in northern Cameroon, a field of marble slabs bears around five hundred engraved geometric figures, circles, sp…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Near the village of Bidzar, in northern Cameroon, a field of marble slabs bears around five hundred engraved geometric figures, circles, sp…
Read →A CNRS team has succeeded in directly radiocarbon-dating Palaeolithic paintings in Font-de-Gaume cave, Dordogne. A bison has been placed at…
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neanderthals then Cro-Magnons succe…
Read →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven caves in Spain and Portu…
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