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Mystery of cave painting symbols solved

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January 23, 2023

European hunter-gatherers painted cave walls for tens of thousands of years. Some of those pictures are marked with symbols. Their meaning was a mystery until a researcher recently figured out how they formed a lunar calendar.

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