Nevertheless, Jole Bovio Marconi studied the rock art extensively and published her findings in 1953 CE. Obviously, there was a war going on and a recent explosion of valuable ammo, so studying the rock art wasn’t an immediate priority. Some of the ammunition being stored in this particular cave exploded - revealing previously buried rock art. They decided to store ammunition in some of the caves near Palermo. The area had already been studied by paleontologists, because there’d been remains of a dwarf elephant nearby but in 1943 Allied forces invaded the island. These particular images are estimated to date back to somewhere roughly between 9,600 and 5,000 BCE. Actually, maybe Picasso isn’t the best example… My point is, there’s a lot of room for interpretation.Īrguably, the oldest depictions of homosexuality are the Grotta dell’Addaura (or the Addaura Cave) in Sicily. Our cavemen ancestors may have been a lot of things, but Picasso wasn’t one of them. The earliest depictions of homosexuality in art are a subject that’s up for a lot of debate - and that’s understandable considering that we’re talking about primitive rock art.
