Image by Adam Brumm Whether the art depicts a hunt or some other ... as old as most similar cave-art scenes in Europe, such as a 19,000-year-old French mural of a bison charging a bird-headed ...

Altamira Cave, discovered in 1868, is known for its incredible polychrome rock paintings, dating back approximately 36,000 years. The lifelike images of bison are particularly striking and ...

Most animals depicted in cave art are the herbivores our ancestors hunted: deer, bison, mammoths and ibex ... Since the images often seem to tell stories, depicting scenes of hunting and what seem to ...

Clustered in five natural rock shelters, paintings show large animal figures including the Indian lion and gaur (an Indian bison ... for hunting. Yet while the inhabitants of this cave sometimes ...

Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings ... the productivity of the hunt as the men are," Snow said. "It wasn't just a bunch of guys out there chasing bison around." ...

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early ... horses with three, bison with four, salmon with three and six, and so on.

Indeed, many societies continue to use a wide range of symbolic hand gestures during hunting ... Age cave paintings might contain a hidden code. Among stunning depictions of mammoths and bison ...

Located inside the limestone cave ... prehistoric art to be found in the area’s intriguing limestone caves. The same study redated a scene of part human, part animal figures hunting warty ...