The Lascaux Cave Paintings

Abbé Breuil Altamira animals antlers appearance Apse Ariège artist Aurignacian Axial Passage belly bison black bull black mane black outline blazons bone Bos longifrons Bos primigenius bovidae brown calcite Cantabrian Cantabrian Mountains cave art Chinese clay climate colour Combarelles cycle dark darts decorated detail Dordogne Elephas engraved and painted entrance equidae especially fauna feet Feline Chamber figures flank Font de Gaume France frieze glacial hooves horns hunting ibexes Lascaux Lateral Passage legs Length Les Eyzies Magdalenian magic Main Chamber mammoth muzzle Nave Niaux ochre oxen painted in black paintings and engravings Palaeolithic caves perhaps period phase photograph prehistoric primitive Quaternary art realism reindeer representations represented retouched rhinoceros rock rump scene schematic seen Sergeac Shaft Solutré Solutrian Spain strokes style superimposed symbols technique tectiforms traces tribe twisted perspective unicorn Upper Palaeolithic Vézère walls Windels