The art of Ice Age children offers a tactile sense of the past
Small hands in dark caves: Ice Age art reveals the role of artistic expression and child’s play in ancient societies
by Izzy Wisher
Izzy Wisher is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project eSYMb: The Evolution of Symbolic Behaviour at Aarhus University in Denmark. She completed her PhD in the psychological foundations of Upper Palaeolithic cave art at Durham University. She specialises in using interdisciplinary approaches to understand the making and use of Palaeolithic art.
Written by Izzy Wisher