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c. 31,000 years ago
 
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Rhinoceroses, lions and mammoth feature on the walls of the Chauvet cave, in southern France     
Rhinoceros in the Chauvet cave

c. 800
 
   
The script known as Carolingian minuscule (basis of the modern roman typeface) is developed by Alcuin and his scribes at the monastery of Tours      
c. 816
 
    
Work begins in Rheims on the Utrecht Psalter, an outstanding example of the Carolingian illuminated manuscript