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parietal art
Engravings and paintings on cave walls and a few open sites.

Parietal art has been found mostly in France and northern Spain, with a few Italian sites, and perhaps others even more distant.

The 20,000-year span of known parietal art does not reach deep into our apish ancestry. The earliest parietal art lies well within the range of our current species, Homo sapiens. The painters of the first known parietal art were far closer in time to folks living today than to the original Homo sapiens.
—Stephen Jay Gould (teacher of biology, geology, and the history of science at Harvard University), Natural History, July, 1996.
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