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 ...

A cave painting of an extinct cattle species from Lascaux, France, with markings on its back. JoJan via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0. Around 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers in ...

Scientists say they have begun to decipher the symbols on Ice Age cave art — and it all started with a hunch by an enthusiastic amateur archeologist.

The animals were painted on to the walls of the chamber by Cro-magnon man, one of our close relations, 15,000 years ago. ... The Cave of Lascaux. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external ...

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 ...