Cave paintings, artifacts and other archaeological evidence indicate that there has been continuous habitation for some 8, 000 years.

Cave paintings in central and northwestern Eritrea were also discovered by Italian colonialists indicating a population of hunter gatherers from the Epipaleolithic era in the region.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

Images believed to depict the Great Auk were also carved into the walls of the El Pinto Cave in Spain over 35, 000 years ago, while cave paintings 20, 000 years old have been found in France's Grotte Cosquer.

Examples of Upper Paleolithic remains associated with religious beliefs include the lion man, the Venus figurines, cave paintings from Chauvet Cave and the elaborate ritual burial from Sungir.

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The Chauvet Cave in the Ardèche Departments of France contains the most important preserved cave paintings of the Paleolithic era, painted around 31, 000 BC.

Murals of sorts date to Upper Paleolithic times such as the paintings in the Chauvet Cave in Ardèche department of southern France ( around 30, 000 BC ).

Cave paintings, from 32, 000 years ago, are one of the oldest forms of human expression and could be either a record of what prehistoric man caught on hunting trips, i. e. non-fiction, or alternately a story expressing what they would like to catch on future occasions, i. e. fiction.

Cave paintings drawn with red or yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcoal may have been made by early Homo sapiens as long as 40, 000 years ago.

Cave paintings said to date back as far as 9000 BC have been found in the northern part of the country.

* 1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

The Cave of Chauvet in the Ardèche département, France, contains the most important cave paintings of the paleolithic era, dating from about 31, 000 BCE.

The entrance to the Cosquer Cave, decorated with paintings of penguins, bison, seals and outlines of hands dating to 27, 000 to 19, 000 BC, is located 37 meters under the surface of the Calanque de Morgiou near Cassis.

Artists have been painting in Provence since prehistoric times ; paintings of bisons, seals, penguins and horses dating to between 27, 000 and 19, 000 BC were found in the Cosquer Cave near Marseille.

In the near vicinity of the arch is the Chauvet-Pont-d ' Arc Cave, containing the earliest known paleolithic cave paintings, about 30. 000 years old ( See also the 3D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams by film director Werner Herzog ).

From among the paintings Turner had on hand and was willing to sell for £ 500, Leslie selected and shipped the 1832 atmospheric seascape Staffa, Fingal's Cave.

Remains of a developed Chumash culture, including rock paintings apparently depicting the Chumash cosmology such as Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park can still be seen.

Cave paintings may have told stories, and artists and artisans beginning in the Middle Ages produced tapestries and illuminated manuscripts that told or helped to tell narratives.

At the base of the hill are two more cave temples, Art Gallery Cave and Museum Cave, both of which are full of Hindu statues and paintings.

Cave paintings in southern France dated to around 15, 000 BCE, show a bow being used as a musical instrument, so this use certainly has a long history.

Cave paintings indicate that people believed the practice would cure epileptic seizures, migraines, and mental disorders.

Cave paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings, especially those of prehistoric origin.

Cave dwelling amphibians normally hunt by smell and some salamanders seem to have learned to recognize immobile prey even when it has no smell.

A total of eight copies of the Book of Daniel have been found at Qumran: two in Cave 1, five in Cave 4, and one in Cave 6.

In Gough's Cave, England, remains of human bones and skulls, around 15, 000 years old, suggest that cannibalism took place amongst the people living in or visiting the cave, and that they may have used human skulls as drinking vessels.

For example, in the Shanidar cave in Iraq, in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales and other sites across Europe and the Near East, Neanderthal skeletons have been discovered with a characteristic layer of flower pollen.

Mousterian deposits found at Gorham's Cave, which are associated with Neanderthals in Europe, have been dated to as recently as 28, 000 to 24, 000 BP, leading to suggestions that Gibraltar was one of the last places of Neanderthal habitation.

Cave species dwelling in darkness lack pigmentation and have a translucent pink or pearlescent appearance.

Groups devoted to the task have arisen, such as the Cave Clan in Australia.

In 2010, during an excavation at the Sibudu Cave in South Africa, led by Professor Lyn Wadley from the University of the Witwatersrand, researchers discovered the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrowheads: 64, 000-year-old stone points which may have been shot from a bow.

Bronze Age evidence, such as funeral urns, pottery and human remains have been found in Tooth Cave at Llethryd, Culver Hole ( Llangennith ) and Cat Hole Cave.

Other school magazines, including The Spectrum and The Arts Review, have been published, as well as publications produced by individual departments such as The Cave ( Philosophy ), Etonomics ( Economics ), Scientific Etonian ( Science ), and most recently The Lexicon ( Modern Languages ).

Dunbar Cave is also reported to have been mined for saltpeter during the Mexican War, but commercial development has erased any evidence of this mining.

Joseph Fitzmyer noted the following regarding the findings at Qumran Cave Four in particular ; " Such ancient recensional forms of Old Testament books bear witness to an unsuspected textual diversity that once existed ; these texts merit far greater study and attention than they have been accorded till now.

Traditionally, this tomb, which may have been either a rock-cut or a natural cave, is identified with the Cave of the Patriarchs ( also called the Cave of Machpelah ).

Excavations in the area of " Bolobok Cave " on Sanga-Sanga Island, Tawi-Tawi Province, have shown the remains of humans dwelling there about 4, 000 years ago.

Visitors can see the cave where John is said to have received his Revelation ( the Cave of the Apocalypse ), and several monasteries on the island are dedicated to Saint John.

Visitors can see the cave where John is said to have received his Revelation ( the Cave of the Apocalypse ), and several monasteries on the island are dedicated to Saint John.

Evidence for this has been found in Sibudu Cave, South Africa and the compound glues used were made from plant gum and red ochre.

However, because April 21 is the only date for Rome's foundation upon which all the legends agree, it has been recently argued that Septimontium celebrated the first federations among Roman hills: a similar federation was, in fact, celebrated by the Latins at Cave, Italy, or at Monte Cavo ( in Castelli ).

Mulvaney's excavation of Kenniff Cave, it was thought that Australia had only been occupied during the Holocene, less than 10, 000 years before present.

The annual festival has also been a launching platform for many Australian artists, with various acts performing on the tour multiple times, such as Silverchair, Powderfinger, You Am I, The Living End, Jebediah, Grinspoon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kisschasy, and Wolfmother.

I Samuel refers to the Cave of Adullam, and reports that David, when he had been expelled from the court of King Saul, there gathered together " every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented " ().

In March 2010, Pääbo and his coworkers published a report about the DNA analysis of a finger bone found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia ; the results suggest that the bone belonged to an extinct member of the genus Homo that had not yet been recognized, the Denisova hominin.

The larger Middle Pleistocene Golden Eagles of France ( and possibly elsewhere ) are referred to a paleosubspecies Aquila chrysaetos bonifacti, and the huge specimens of the Late Pleistocene of Liko Cave ( Crete ) have been named Aquila chrysaetos simurgh .</ ref >