In 1879, the first cave paintings were discovered in Altamira. These paintings were at first rejected because they were simply “too good.” Then, in 1940, four boys and a dog named “Robot” were playing in Lascaux, France. Robot fell into a hole in the ground, and when the boys rescued him, they discovered nearly 110 caves with over 2000 animal paintings inside. These were painted in the Upper Paleolithic era, before agriculture and domesticated animals. In this era, there were other types of art other than cave paintings; sculptures of corpulent women, called venuses, were also made of red ocher, a type of clay mixed with iron oxide (rust).

Next came the Neolithic era. This is when agriculture and civilization began. The original settlements were in Jericho, known for its walls falling down in the famed Bible story, and Çatal Hüyük in Turkey. Art in this time was primarily

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