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- 1 0 Many explanations are offered for the selection and relative size of animals and their arrangement on painted cave walls.
- 2 0 Two views of recent human evolution: gradual change over a wide area or wholesale replacement of earlier hominids.
- 3 0 The cave of Klasies River Mouth, southern Africa, find spot of the earliest modern humans yet known.
- 4 0 Neanderthals are often depicted as little better than beasts; in fact they would pass unnoticed among modern humans.
- 5 0 A selection of Neanderthal tools: the diversity of the toolkit is a fine reflection of Neanderthal people's abilities.
- 6 0 A Neanderthal from Shanidar perhaps buried with flowers.
- 7 0 A fossil from Tata in Hungary on which a line had been scored by its Neanderthal owner.
- 8 0 Reconstruction of a structure built by Palaeolithic people at Mezhirich using bones from long-dead mammoths.
- 9 0 A fine paintings from Lascaux, showing a line of reindeer swimming through a river. Reindeer moved with the seasons.
- 10 0 By Neanderthal times tools were designed for specific purposes; some indicate a developing aesthetic sense.
- 11 0 A shell necklace from DolnÌ Vestonice. Such ornaments may have indicated membership of a particular group.
- 12 0 The plants and animals depicted on this baton from Montgaudier, some paired, suggest spring and the mating season.
- 13 0 One of the unusual paintings from Grotte Chauvet, showing lions and rhinos.
- 14 0 Fine Palaeolithic carvings: a bison from La Madeleine.
- 14 1 Fine Palaeolithic carvings: a 'Venus' figurine from Kostenki.
- 15 0 Two children buried head to head and covered with thousands of the ivory beads that had once decorated their clothing.
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