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Dappled Horse Paintings Decoded by DNA
The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle, in a cave in southern France, is a nearly 25,000-yearold depiction of horses with spotted coats. While spots are seen in many modern horses, they were believed to be a product of later domestication and thus would not have coexisted with humans in the Paleolithic.That belief turned out to be wrong.
Features May 1, 2011
Unexploded War Relics
On February 6, 2011, thousands of residents of the Boulogne-Billancourt community in west Paris were awoken at dawn and asked to leave their homes for more than four hours while French military explosive experts defused a nearly 1,000-pound bomb found in their neighborhood.
Features March 1, 2011
A Chauvet Primer
After the cave paintings were discovered in December 1994, the first question archaeologists faced was, how old are they?
Features March 1, 2011
Werner Herzog on 3-D, Cavemen, and the Scent of a Cave Bear
Last March, preeminent filmmaker Werner Herzog was given unprecedented access to Chauvet Cave in southeastern France to film the site's Paleolithic art.
