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Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🌟

We all love a good reindeer at Christmas! These ones were painted in Font-de-Gaume cave in France 18,000 years ago!

Rudolph the Red-backed Cave deer? 🎶🦌

#RockArtThursday #archaeology 🏺
A faded cave painting of a two reindeer facing eachother, with a modern reconstruction painting above
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🎆 Happy New Year Everyone! 🎆

2026 is the Year of the Horse 🐴, so here are some of my favourite archaeological horses for #RockArtThursday!

This is the stunning 'Panel of the Horses' in Chauvet Cave, France, painted ~30,000 years ago! 🐎

I hope everyone has a great year!

#archaeology 🏺
Cave paintings in black of four horse heads next to eachother in succession on a yellow wall, with the drawing of a rhino beneath
January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Out on a hunt! 🏹

Rock art that I spotted on a boulder near Lake Mutirikwi in Zimbabwe

I love the details of the bows and arrows, and their long legs as they run!

They're likely several thousand years old

#RockArtThursday

📸 Mine

#archaeology #africa #photooftheday 🏺
Red paintings of stick figures carrying bows and arrows running, on a grey stone background
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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A new discovery for #RockArtThursday!

This stencilled handprint in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,500 years old, making it the oldest cave painting yet found!

It was dated by analysing a thin mineral crust that had formed over it

#archaeologynews #news 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity
A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 8:57 AM