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Cave paintings

Paintings found on cave walls and ceilings

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145 works

    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0004840: Drawing of a brown bison, from Font-de-Gaume

    | Date: 6 October 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/39/32
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0004793: Red symbols from the Cave of Altamina

    | Date: 29 September 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/38/86
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0004847: Drawing of two large reindeer, from Font-de-Gaume

    | Date: 6 October 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/39/39
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0011689: Upper palaeolithic wall painting showing wolf

    | Date: December 1950 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/103/99
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0015293: Rhinoceros carved on a rock wall, upper Palaeolithic

    | Date: October 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/136/59
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Prehistoric
Art, Prehistoric
Prehistoric peoples
Ancient

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