These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation | Simon Jenkins

The British Museum's ice age exhibition proves beyond doubt that human beings are born to make art and cannot escape it

On a grassy plateau high above Derwentwater in Cumbria stands the stone circle of Castlerigg. It offers a panorama of the Lake District that stretches up to Borrowdale and across to the Catbells ridge, with the giants of Skiddaw and Helvellyn lofty to the east. All around are peaks, valleys, mists and spirits of the place. I doubt if anywhere in England has a more exhila...