* Altamira Cave - northern Spain
* Pech Merle Cave - southern France
* Lascaux Caves - southwestern France
Cave of Altamira (15,000 - 12,000 BCE)
Located in northern and mountainous Spain, Altamira is a cave famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings of wild mammals and human hands. The latter might be left by the original painters, as signatures or chops.
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| Bison 195cm top line |
Pech Merle (30,000 - 20,000 BCE)
Pech Merle is a prehistoric cave in southern France.
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| Replica in Brno Museum - top line of wild horse 200 cm |
Lascaux (17,300 BCE)
Lascaux Caves, in southwestern France, is famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings, primarily of large animals.
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Source: Wikipedia
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Prehistoric cave art in Africa
(Sahara had been wet until 4200 BC)
Scientists used satellite to scan Sahara; radar images revealed
huge ancient river systems under the sand.
Among the scientists attracted to onsite studies,
American geologists uncovered, by the ancient riverside,
traits of several campsites and a stone axe of 2.5 million years old.
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