Jaroff, Leon. „Etched in Stone”, Time, 1997. június 2.. [2013. február 4-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva] (Hozzáférés: 2008. október 7.) „Wildlife and humans tend to get equal billing in African rock art. (In the caves of western Europe, by contrast, pictures of animals cover the walls and human figures are rare.) In southern Africa, home to the San, or Bushmen, many of the rock scenes depicting people interpret the rituals and hallucinations of the shamans who still dominate the San culture today. Among the most evocative images are those believed to represent shamans deep in trance: a reclining, antelope-headed man surrounded by imaginary beasts, for example, or an insect-like humanoid covered with wild decorations.”
Amos, Jonathan: Red dot becomes 'oldest cave art'. BBC News, 2012. június 14. [2012. június 15-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2012. június 15.) „One motif – a faint red dot – is said to be more than 40,000 years old.”
Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art. BBC News "The minimum age for (the outline of the hand) is 39,900 years old, which makes it the oldest hand stencil in the world", said Dr Aubert. "Next to it is, and this is one of the oldest figurative depictions in the world, if not the oldest one", he told BBC News. There are also paintings in the caves that are around 27,000 years old, which means that the inhabitants were painting for at least 13,000 years."
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Pettitt, Paul (2008. november 1.). „Art and the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe: Comments on the archaeological arguments for an early Upper Paleolithic antiquity of the Grotte Chauvet art”. Journal of Human Evolution55 (5), 908–917. o. DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.04.003. PMID18678392.
Jaroff, Leon. „Etched in Stone”, Time, 1997. június 2.. [2013. február 4-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva] (Hozzáférés: 2008. október 7.) „Wildlife and humans tend to get equal billing in African rock art. (In the caves of western Europe, by contrast, pictures of animals cover the walls and human figures are rare.) In southern Africa, home to the San, or Bushmen, many of the rock scenes depicting people interpret the rituals and hallucinations of the shamans who still dominate the San culture today. Among the most evocative images are those believed to represent shamans deep in trance: a reclining, antelope-headed man surrounded by imaginary beasts, for example, or an insect-like humanoid covered with wild decorations.”
Amos, Jonathan: Red dot becomes 'oldest cave art'. BBC News, 2012. június 14. [2012. június 15-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2012. június 15.) „One motif – a faint red dot – is said to be more than 40,000 years old.”
