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cave painting

paintings found on cave walls and ceilings
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Summary

cave painting is a genre of painting[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of genre of painting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,016 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: mural[3], rock painting[4], rock art[5]
  • Commons category: Cave paintings[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cave paintings[7]
  • Earliest date: -38000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • Described by source: Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[9]

Why It Matters

cave painting has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . akp.nba.fi. Retrieved . akp.nba.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0251110-jeskynni-malby
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  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Cave paintings
    Described by source → Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 27964, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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