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| c. 31,000 years ago |
| | Rhinoceroses, lions and mammoth feature on the walls of the Chauvet cave, in southern France | |
| | Rhinoceros in the Chauvet cave
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| c. 29,000 years ago |
| | In the Cosquer cave near Marseilles, with its entrance now far below sea level, a hand print is made | |
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| c. 25,000 years ago |
| | A Stone Age sculptor shapes a timeless image of female fecundity in the famous Willendorf Venus | |
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| c. 25,000 years ago |
| | A Brassempouy, in France, a Venus figurine is carved which is the oldest known example to have facial features | |
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| c. 18,000 years ago |
| | A bison figurine is carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, southeast of Moscow | |
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| c. 16,000 years ago |
| | The walls of the complex of caves at Lascaux in France are covered, over the years, with a vast number of paintings of animals | |
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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | The walls of Altamira, an extensive cave in Spain, are decorated with paintings and engraved images of horses, deer and above all bison | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | The neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus has a paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | Oxen are the first draught animals, in use at this time in the Middle East and in Europe | |
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