Exhibition of 'ice-age' carvings - small gallery

[sandbender]

Some really quite wonderful pieces to be seen in this small gallery at the Guardian newspaper website.

13,000 year old carving of a horse head.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jan/24/ice-age-art-british-museum-in-pictures

 

[Arjati]

Fantastic, thanks for linking to this.

 

[Man of Tanith]

lovely stuff and well reminded
me and lisa are meant to be going at some point

 

[suburban bushwacker]

Nice one - I shall be subjecting the kids to [yet] another visit this weekend

 

[crosslandkelly]

When you consider the tools they used, it makes the pieces even more beautiful to me.

 

[redbeard]

When you consider the tools they used, it makes the pieces even more beautiful to me.

indeed.
probably most of it was done by the fire - how much daylight can you have for such a 'hobby' between foraging and fighting off wild animals..