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What are the challenges of studying ancient humans early forms of cave paintings and carvings?​

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Cave art is generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function, sometimes both. The exact meanings of the images remain unknown, but some experts think they may have been created within the framework of shamanic beliefs and practices.
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Answer: Because the cave art found in Indonesia shared similarities with the cave art in western Europenamely, that early people seemed to have a fascination animals, and had a propensity for painting abstractions of those animals in cavesmany scientists now believe that the impressive works are evidence of the way the human

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