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Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The palaeolithic period stretches across a vast period of space and time, but if there’s one thing that really brings the prehistoric era to life for us today, it’s cave art. Professor Paul Pettitt answers your top questions on what we can learn from the extraordinary prehistoric paintings and engravings found at places like Lascaux and Altamira. Speaking to David Musgrove, he delves into when and why this art was made, who made it, and how. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

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0:07.3

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0:10.3

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0:13.9

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0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

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0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

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0:24.2

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0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:32.3

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

0:35.7

Fascinating historical conversations

0:37.5

from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

0:50.6

Prehistory can often feel incredibly distant, but something that can bring us closer to the human experience in this time well-before-written records is art.

1:03.0

And fortunately, we still have some engravings and paintings that survive from the Paleolithic era, principally on the wall of caves, and famously at places

1:12.7

like LaSkau and Altamira. In the latest of our Everything You Wanted to know series, David

1:18.9

Musgrove put your questions on cave art to Paul Petit, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology

1:25.0

at the University of Durham, an author of a new book, Homer Sapiens Rediscovered,

1:30.3

How Science is Revolutionising Our Origins Story.

1:34.3

To start, David asked Paul to explain exactly what we mean by prehistoric,

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