Lascaux Cave Painting Analysis

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Cave Painting Tour In the video Lascaux Cave Paintings – Visual Tour I was able to see the different type of cave paintings done by humans long ago. In 1500 B.C.E. many groups settled together in France and started doing their very first cave paintings by hand. It is so amazing how humans like ourselves were able to do those cave paintings by hand and be the very first to discover handwriting. In 1940 three teenage boys discovered this cave in a little village in southwestern France They would use these cave painting to communicate with each other and represent things and themselves. This cave has nearly 2000 figures, most of them are paintings of human figures, animals, and abstract figures. Most of these figures were painted on the cave

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