Lascaux close up

Over 20,000 years ago, stone age humans sought to understand and manipulate that world. Turning to magic and mythology, they painted images that had the most influence on their lives. The greatest manifestation of those ideas are found in the remarkable cave paintings at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc and Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in France as well as Altamira in Spain.
These paintings represent a special moment in the minds of humans. The primary objects are animals and humans appear very rarely though fertility symbols are also common.