Images of mammoths found on Channel Islands show animals in abstract models

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Archaeologists on the Channel Islands have discovered some of the earliest Stone Age art ever found in northern Europe.

The discovery is of huge importance – not only from a prehistoric art perspective, but also because it strongly implies that the remains of a long-lost art-producing Stone Age culture may well lie hidden from view at the bottom of the English Channel.

The art, discovered on the Channel Islands, probably portrays animals as well as abstract patterns.

But the site – at Les Varines, near St Helier on Jersey – is also producing evidence of a very substantial Stone Age encampment, involved in the production of spears and other hunting equipment.

It’s currently believed that what is now Britain had no human residents between around 29,000 BC and around 12,800 BC.

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That’s kind of funny to me because I think we’re so pretentious to label it as art because maybe those ancient folks had no idea what they were doing or just randomly scratching around those stones! 
 

Thinking about it more deeply, it’s interesting to understand art as an inherent human characteristic that has evolved intrinsically with our species 

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