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Article: Paleolithic art tells the past.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2002
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Byline: Oliver Andresen
Primarily through pictorial art do we express our relationship to space and time. The first artists were the Paleolithic people of the Stone Age, living between 30,000 and 8,000 BC.
Little is known about them. They were small and hairy, surviving by whatever space provided, such as living in caves, eating the flesh of animals cooked by fire, their first great discovery, and wearing animal skins as protection against painful climatic conditions.
Still, beyond the understanding of animals from which they had evolved, the Paleolithic people had developed the concept of time. We know this by their art. On the walls of caves ...