Nearly a century later Dr. White returned with an international team of 21 scientists and even more student volunteers to find them. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyTheir subject matter was something more abstract and meaningful than simply dinner, Dr. White said. Dinner was reindeer, primarily, but no reindeer art has been found. This cave art outlived its creators, who did not hand down their pointillist techniques to European artists tens of thousands of years later. “All of this stuff got invented, but it’s not continuous,” Dr. White said.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2017 21:45 UTC