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19 hours ago · Later still, during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, our human predecessors used firelight to venture into deep cave systems to perform ritual activities and create art on the cave walls ...
19 hours ago · Opinion: Fears that English is 'disappearing' in England are misplaced – history shows the island has always been multilingual
19 hours ago · While the Old Norse borrowings noted above have become "homely" words in modern English, their Norman French equivalents have come to signify upper-class versions of the same concept. Consider the resonances of kid/heir, stench/odour, egg/omelette, yard/court, skirt/costume, anger/cruelty, fight/battle, law/parliament or knife/armour.
19 hours ago · Prehistoric art is the art developed from the Stone Age (Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic) to the Metal Age, periods where the first manifestations that can be considered as artistic by human beings appeared. In the Paleolithic (25,000– 8000 BC), man hunted and lived in caves, producing so-called cave paintings.
