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Chauvet Cave

38,000 years ago

Contains the oldest known cave paintings in the world, with masterful depictions of lions, rhinos, and mammoths from 36,000 years ago

See the deep-time shelf

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38,000 years ago — older than the timeline's axis, which begins at 9000 BCE. Drawn to the same scale as the rest of the canvas, everything since would be a single pixel, so Chauvet Cave sits on the deep-time shelf instead.

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