An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago ...

The most common themes in European cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands [which was said to be the signature of the artist ...

At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...

At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...

The cave site is well known by locals and ... These animal designs include depictions of hinds, horses, aurochs and deer. Most of the paintings were usually made using clay—a rare find at ...

The pregnant deer in the cave art indicate a late winter or early spring hunt, which would be very rare, Theler said. “It’s suggestive of desperation, because native peoples are usually pretty ...

paintings of jaguar, tapir and red deer (shown here, c. 10,000 B.C.) interact with human figures in scenes that include dancing and hunting. Niède Guidon / Bradshaw Foundation Coliboaia Cave ...

Most animals depicted in cave art are the herbivores our ancestors hunted: deer, bison, mammoths and ibex. However, in some caves, particularly the Chauvet cave in southern France, the images feature ...

Several ancient cave paintings were recently discovered along ... The paintings portray what appear to be female archers and deer and goats, some of which are wounded by arrows, according to ...

Of course, that involves a long exposure though, so our current theory is that the cave painting represents an idealised scenario and in fact the primitive photographers would have had to rest the ...