B etween 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region ...

Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies, is after all not so far away from them, and local folk knew by hearsay all about such places as Font de Gaume ...

The Lascaux cave complex contains more than 600 paintings and around 1500 engravings of animals, abstract symbols, and a single human-like figure. (Humans are rarely depicted in any of the ...