PREHISTORIC ART & LASCAUX

• Nearly 340 caves have now been discovered in France and Spain that contain art from prehistoric times

• The oldest known cave art comes from the Cave of El Castillo in northern Spain

• It has been shown to be more than 40,800 years old.

• This cave art shows human hands• Some scientists think it was made by

Neanderthals, while others think it was made by Homo Sapiens of the Cro-Magnon type.

Over 40,000 years old

• The second-oldest known cave art is that of Chauvet Cave in France, the paintings of which date to earlier than 30,000 BCE (Upper Paleolithic) according to radiocarbon dating

Lascaux

• Some of the most beautiful prehistoric cave art is in a cave in Lascaux, in France.

• It was discovered in 1940, by 4 teenagers who were exploring the cave.

Ceiling

Shaft of the Dead man

Shaft of the Dead Man