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A London furniture conservator solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery

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With his research advancing, he brought in friends and senior academics. They encouraged him to continue with his investigations despite Mr Bacon being "effectively a person off the street".

He collaborated with a team including two professors from Durham University and one from University College London and, by working out the birth cycles of similar present-day animals, they deduced that the number of marks on the cave paintings was a record, by lunar month, of the animals' mating seasons.
 
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That is really interesting. I have been to Lascaux. The caves are closed now but the replica is very impressive. The paintings are haunting and wonderful. I would recommend a visit to anybody interested in art or anthropology.

Don't think of hairy ape-men. These were modern people who looked like us. Of course they knew a lot about the animals they hunted. Their knowledge of their breeding seasons tempts us to speculate that they understood about the danger of over-exploitation. Perhaps we could even learn from them as well as about them.
 
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