New Scientist
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Stone Age occupants of Europe had a strange fixation on horses. Almost one in every three animals they depicted on cave walls was a horse and the images are often larger and occupy more prominent positions than those of other animals. However, why the horse loomed so large in ancient minds may remain forever a mystery.
Since the 1990s, Georges Sauvet at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France, has been compiling a database of European Stone Age (or Palaeolithic) art. Today that database contains information on more than 4700 drawings, paintings and engravings of animals found in caves across France and Spain. The oldest image may be more than 30,000 years old and the youngest roughly 12,000 years old. Read more on newscientist.com…
