which makes it more modern than the cave art discovered at nearby Chauvet. The cave at Lascaux was thought to have been occupied in three separate phases. The first period was identified by some ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

At the time the art was created, people were living as hunters and gatherers, and it's possible that rituals of some form took place in the cave. Chauvet cave in southeastern France has drawings ...