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Bhimbetka Rock Shelters. India’s Oldest Art Gallery

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters.  India’s Oldest Art Gallery

Our adoption of agriculture and the concomitant ‘civilization’ began barely 10,000 years ago. Therefore historian’s obsession with this tiny sliver of our past, often at the expense of over 7 million years of cave dwelling, is truly astounding.

What is more remarkable is the view now increasingly held by many important biologists is that we were probably more successful as hunters and gatherers.


Bhimbetka Rock Shelters. Art in the Stone Age

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters. Art in the Stone Age

Call it a characteristic lack of interest in our history or lack of publicity, Bhimbetka hardly gets any visitors. Most of the tourists throng the other more popular monuments and pilgrim spots that litter this part of Madhya Pradesh.