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 ...

Still, accurately dating cave paintings is a difficult task ... but because nobody had ever uncovered any real evidence that Neanderthals created art, the findings sparked debate in the scientific ...

It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world. Figurative artwork refers to art that depicts animals, humans, or objects from real life; they are not abstract.

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 ...

Turning serving trays decorated by anonymous, long-lost artisans into blue chip art, Cave underlines the arbitrary way we assign value to artifacts; including his own face reminds us that those ...

cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing ... Sometimes it's fun to draw something that you see in real life. Or something that you think up in your own mind. Drawing can bring your ...

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 ...

So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that had fallen from the cave ceiling in an area with numerous animal bones, ...