Why would someone, 20 or 30,000 years ago, polish a stone bead until it shone like ice in the sun?
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Out there, where the wind breaks your bones and the snow never ends, people still carved beauty out of ivory. Hunters, mothers, children — they laughed, they froze, they made art. In the heart of the Ice Age, they shaped memory with a knife. This is their story: the fire, the cold, and the little figures that refused to die.
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Tania is an Ukrainian self-thought painter living in Portugal. She exhibited around the world. Tania was won some prestigious awards. Consider checking: Buymeacoffee, Ko-fi, Patreon, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram
Asia, the wide horizon where humans were tested and still found time to dream. Not just survival: fire, blood, bone, and the oldest handprints in the world. From mammoth hunters to the first potters, Asia was the crucible of humanity. Snow, desert, jungle, mountain: our ancestors bent but never broke.
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13,000 years ago somebody sat with a mammoth’s tusk and cut two reindeer into it. Swimming, nose to tail, alive in the ivory. That’s all we have of him. No name, no story.
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Coliboaia Cave, western Romania. Paintings are the oldest in Central Europe. 35 to 23,000 years old. Aurignacian. Gravettian.
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Nick is a painter, youtuber and a podcaster.
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The Côa Valley in Portugal. Horses, aurochs, deer, scratched into the rock by hands long gone. The valley breathes, still holding the ghosts of the Ice Age. Across the border in Spain, Siega Verde carries the same story.
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It was long time since I published one of these stories. I hope you like it with the visual.
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Clothes kept us alive. Ice ages came and went, and we had to deal with the cold or die. Ian Gilligan is a researcher who says it straight: we invented clothes to fight the cold, nothing else. He digs through the evidence, and there’s more out there than people think. Once the world warmed, weaving and fibre work showed up, and from that came farming. Gilligan ties it all together, simple and clear.
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Deep in the Rouffignac Cave, artists of the Ice Age carved with a mastery that still stuns us today. Mammoths, rhinos, and horses etched in stone with bold, confident strokes, art that has endured for 13,000 years.Consider checking: Buymeacoffee, Ko-fi, Patreon, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram
They dug into the earth and found faces. Not gods, not myths, just people like you and me, scratched into stone 15,000 years ago. Horses, women, old men, a newborn. La Marche, a cave full of people who staring back.
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Tatyana is an art historian, educator, and content creator on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. You can order her book.
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There is a cave in Dordogne, sealed off from the world, from public. Once, people went inside with knives of flint, and left their marks. In the dark, a sorcerer is scratched into the stone 20, 000 years ago. Who is he?
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The Cougnac Caves guard secrets older than history itself. Here, on walls untouched for tens of thousands of years, hunters left their stories in paint and scratch. Among the herds of deer, ibex, and mammoths, one figure draws the eye: a man, pierced by spears, silent across millennia. What happened? Who was he? And why did someone want him dead?
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This is the story of Ayla, a Cro-Magnon girl raised by Neanderthals in Ice Age Europe, struggling to survive in a world that fears and rejects her. Blending archaeology, fiction, and poetic truth, Auel explore what it means to be different, to adapt, and to endure.
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13,000 years ago, Magdalenian hands shaped life-sized women, bison, ibex, and haunting human faces into the rock at Roc-aux-Sorciers. This wasn’t just art: it was memory, myth, and meaning, cut into the wall with flint, bone, and firelight.
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Chris and Joseph are authors of History Dose, they are educators and great story tellers.
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There is a place in southwestern France, in Dordogne, where time folds gently into itself, like the corner of an old love letter. A Magdalenian shelter, beneath the overhang of a limestone cliff, once, long ago, was alive with the fire-lit breath of the Magdalenian artists and hunters. Consider checking: Buymeacoffee, Ko-fi, Patreon, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram