Amount Quote by Howard Rheingold

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal…

— Werner Herzog

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history…

— Kathryn Lasky

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream…

— Gregory Colbert

Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business,…

— Tom Robbins

“While humans have been cooking, making music, and building for thousands of years, archaeologists have yet to discover those cave paintings of Man at…

— Ka Wai Cheung

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a…

— Barbara Hurd

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

— Trevor Paglen

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty…

— Maria Konnikova

“Entering a cave” or rock was a metaphor for a shaman’s altered state; therefore, caves (and rocks more generally) were considered entrances or portals…

— James David Lewis-Williams

When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished…

— Werner Herzog

[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of…

— Thomas George Bonney

“Also renowned is the beautiful painting ceiling of the cave at Altamira, in Northern Spain. This was the first cave art to be discovered…

— Kevin N Laland