Practice question · Put in order
Order the symbolic record, oldest first.
- Humans reach Australia and occupy Siberia
- Chauvet: lions and rhinos in perspective
- Lascaux and Altamira are painted
- Blombos: engraved ochre and shell beads in South Africa
- Sapiens spread into Europe with a full symbolic toolkit
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- The pigment engravings precede the painted caves by tens of millennia.
- The two famous caves are separated by about fifteen thousand years.
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- Blombos: engraved ochre and shell beads in South Africa
- Sapiens spread into Europe with a full symbolic toolkit
- Chauvet: lions and rhinos in perspective
- Humans reach Australia and occupy Siberia
- Lascaux and Altamira are painted
Why
Note that Chauvet precedes Lascaux by ~15,000 years and Blombos precedes both by tens of millennia. The "explosion" is the middle of the story, not the start.
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