One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

At the time the art was created, people were living as hunters and gatherers, and it's possible that rituals of some form ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

The Magdalenians are recognized as hunters and artists, and produced cave paintings with bison and engravings and etchings of headless female forms. They were uncovered on the northern bank of the ...

The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago. They show animals as well as some human hunters. Some historians believe that Stone Age paintings had a religious meaning.