Recent archeological studies done at the University of Cambridge show that children as young as five participated in sort of pre-school cave drawing activities. Here is the news article on the university website:
A conference on the Archaeology of Childhood taking place this weekend at the University of Cambridge will reveal the latest research into art made by young children in one of the most famous prehistoric decorated caves in France – the complex of caverns at Rouffignac also known as the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths.
Cambridge archaeologist Jess Cooney will explain how meticulous research, using methodology tailor-made for the task, has made it possible to identify both the age and gender of the children who made the simple art form known as finger flutings around 13,000 years ago during the hunter gatherer period.
Her work reveals that some of the flutings studied were made by a three-year-old child with the most prolific young artist being a girl of five. Archaeologists first realised that children had produced some of the finger flutings back in 2006: fieldwork carried out earlier this year by Cooney, a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, and Dr Leslie Van Gelder of Walden University, USA, shows just how young they were.
Read HERE the entire article.
You may also find in MailOnline an article on this very interesting theme.
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