15000-17000 BC: Caves of Lascaux in Montignac, France


15000-17000 BC
Caves of Lascaux in Montignac, France

The Cave of Lascaux has paintings which are over ten-thousand-year-old. The paintings are most likely made in the Upper Paleolithic period with the use of minerals to create red, yellow, black, brown, and violet color. The dimension of the cave is 66 feet wide and 16 feet high, and it is first studied by Henri-Édouard-Prosper Breuil, a French archeologist.
The paintings consisted of different large animals which moved along in heards and a story of men hunting those animals. Many of the animals are almost life size, and that shows the importance of the sacredness in hunting large animals and how nature can be strong and defeated.

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