Word: altamira
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...Stone Age.'' What he did not immediately realize-and the world did not know until the French Culture Ministry announced it last week-was that they had discovered an archaeological trove that may rival even the fabled drawings on the cave walls at Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain. The spelunkers had found an extraordinarily clear window on prehistoric life...
Stung by lessons learned at Altamira and Lascaux, where initial unrestricted access to the caves obliterated archaeological clues and led to the rapid deterioration of artwork, the French Culture Ministry has put the Chauvet cave off limits to all but a handful of experts and installed video surveillance cameras and police guards at the entrance. "Our goal," says Baghain, "is to keep the cave in this virgin state so that research can, in theory, continue indefinitely...
...France and Spain. They show unusual patterns for several genes, including the highest rate of the Rh-negative blood type. Their language is of unknown origin and cannot be placed within any standard classification. And the fact that they live in the region adjoining the famous Lascaux and Altamira caves, which contain vivid paintings from Europe's early hunter- gatherers, leads Cavalli-Sforza to a tantalizing conclusion: "The Basques are extremely likely to be the most direct descendants of the Cro-Magnon people, among the first modern humans in Europe." All Europeans are thought to be a hybrid population, with...
...Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish- speaking world. Aiming to show that the Latin legacy is as rich as anything in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, Fuentes has condensed five centuries of Hispanic experience into a multimedia saga that ranges, in his words, "from the caves of Altamira to the graffiti of East Los Angeles...
...himself as a progenitor. But the idea of an undefined background space haunted him. Over the years he spread across it an increasingly personalized iconography of symbols, of figures and faces and shapes. Miró's images run back to the ancient drawings from the caves of Altamira that he saw in his youth. "One must refine the magical sense of things," he said, and the symbols and signs he created-a scribble for a bird, a bristle of lines for a star, a target for a breast-were images deeply lodged in the racial unconscious. Those included sexual...