[JimSEA]

This article fits in beautifully with what I am reading now -- Brian Fafan's "The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization". I used to wonder what had happened to these folk as no comparable art followed the paintings. Fagan makes a good guess in their high mobility as huinters / gatherers following the warming and their possible use of wood, etc. as a media which has a short life.

[blam]

"Fagan makes a good guess in their high mobility as huinters / gatherers following the warming and their possible use of wood, etc. as a media which has a short life."

This guy, Mr Targett, didn't wander to far from home.

Descendent Of Stone Age Skeleton Found

[Pharmboy]

Hmmmm...I did not know the Picts could draw.

[RightWhale]

what had happened to these folk

They moved to Egypt and Mesopotamia, then to South America. No sign is left of who those people actually were, but they are still here.

[SunkenCiv]

At least one painted cave was located by divers in the Mediterranean. The entrance had been submerged for over 10 thousand years, and the upper, painted galleries were above modern sealevel. This not only sealed off the work from human discovery, it also buries the idea that it wasn't done a very long time ago, regardless of one's perspective of history.