'Painted in red' - highlighting the importance of non-figurative marks in palaeolithic European cave art [pdf 13pp] #RockArt #ParietalArt #palaeolithic #CaveArt https://www.academia.edu/85459249/Painted_in_red_In_search_of_alternative_explanations_for_European_Palaeolithic_cave_art
Painted in red: In search of alternative explanations for European Palaeolithic cave art

Traditionally, studies of Palaeolithic cave art have largely ignored or directly overlooked the red marks of anthropogenic origin that do not belong to figurative categories, in spite of their importance in quantitative terms in this type of art.