Clottes led research on Chauvet Cave that helped to fuel the idea of a European “human revolution.” “Why shouldn’t they make hand stencils if they wanted to?” he asks, when I reach him ...

The walls of France's Chauvet cave, occupied 32,000 years ago, are painted with lions, hyenas and bears—perhaps the oldest paintings in the world. The artists weren't the cave's only occupants ...

The Chauvet - Pont d´Arc cave has left us an astounding freshness legacy. Adorned by our ancestors 36,000 years ago, it invites us to dialogue with these very first modern humans. A group of ...

Chauvet Cave's art dates back even further, to around 30,000 years ago Famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings of wild mammals and human hands, Altamira Cave in northern Spain is often ...