The Ancient Art Archive launched and Instagram account! Humanity’s newest social media platform seemed like the perfect place to Explore the Humanity’s oldest stories. In the feed, we post images and videos from the Archive and also pictures from the field.

Sometimes ice age art is breathtakingly simple and mysterious. 15,000 years ago someone drew a series of Reindeer inside Las Chimeneas cave, Spain. All of them are rendered in this minimalist style. So delicate and evocative. None of the figures has a mouth… #spain #paleolithic

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It is a great addition to our Facebook page. The stories we are recording on rock and cave walls around the planet are Humanity’s first social media. These new platforms bring our first stories to a new audience.

So what’s it look like on assignment for the Ancient Art Archive? We tend to shoot late and get up early so camp often looks like this, just a sleeping pad in the dirt on the side of a trailhead. In this case, Wild Horse wash on the San Rafael Swell in Utah. #utah #dirtbag

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Please follow us on both Instagram and Facebook. They are a great way to keep in touch.

-Stephen Alvarez