Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave (1000 Books to Read)

This was so interesting! I would have never picked this book up, but it was exciting to read the story of the three people who discovered the oldest art in the world!

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

James Mustich

Dawn of Art chronicles—in text and scholarship, appreciation and analysis, and, most importantly, in astonishing, detailed color photographs—the discovery made in the Ardèche Valley of France in December 1994 of a cave, untouched for thousands of years, filled with Stone Age bear skeletons, the remains of fires, and, staggeringly, more than three hundred paintings and engravings of animals. Radiocarbon dating has established these images to be more than thirty thousand years old; they are the oldest known paintings in the world. With nearly one hundred large color photographs, Dawn of Art is a stunning volume, documenting a thrilling discovery as it provokes both thought and awe.