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Illuminating cave art

Many Minds by Kensy Cooperrider

Apr 9, 202601:25:53Science & Medicine

Deep in our past, in the dark depths of caves, our ancestors did something strange and beautiful. Working by firelight, some doodled little designs. Others made hand stencils. Some saw a bulge of rock, or a crack in the...

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Illuminating cave art is an episode from Many Minds by Kensy Cooperrider. Deep in our past, in the dark depths of caves, our ancestors did something strange and beautiful. Working by firelight, some doodled little designs. Others made hand...

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