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Paint is at least 35,000 years old, but could even be 100,000 years old. Paint pre-dates our recorded history, so there is no documented invention of paint. Humans have only existed for about 200,000 years, so it cannot go any further back than that.
The oldest known cave painting is in Chauvet Cave in France. According to retrocarbon dating, the paintings were made about 35,000 years ago. Archaeologists in South Africa discovered in 2011 tools to make an ochre-based compound 100,000 years old. The ochre compound may have been used as paint, but also could have been a form of ancient glue.
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Painting has been around for thousands of years, with some of the oldest known cave paintings dating back to over 40,000 years ago. The practice of creating images on surfaces using pigments and various tools has evolved significantly over time to become the diverse and rich art form we see today.
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∙ 11y agoMan has been recording his world with drawings from earliest times. Early man put pictographs on the walls of caves showing the animals he hunted and saw.
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