On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...

Over the years, archaeologist Randall White of New York University and his colleagues have discovered various artistic items of southern France’s Abri Castanet, a shallow cave in the Vexere valley, ...

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...