The Oldest Street Art in the World
<p>This month Globetrotters Medium publication celebrates and explores Street Art…but just how old is this art form? I’ve got two contributions to make from different ends of Europe on this subject, and I welcome any comments on where else prehistoric street art might be found. First, how do you define street art in a era before streets? Well, simply, it has to be outdoors, and created in an area that plausibly had some foot traffic — a reason for stone-age men and women to saunter round for a look.</p>
<h1><strong>Alta, Norway</strong></h1>
<p>Alta is also one of the oldest inhabited places in Northern Europe. People first found their way to this fjord more than 7,000 years ago as the glaciers of the last Ice Age began to recede and the climate became more temperate. In fact, it was even warmer back then than it is today. The intrepid prehistoric people who lived in the far north left evidence of settlements, arrowheads, stone tools, and, above all, carvings etched on the rocky coast of Altafjord: beautiful, mysterious, graceful works of art chiselled in stone between 7,000 and 2,000 years ago.</p>
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