The Earliest Cave Paintings
Cave paintings ranging from 40,000 BC on
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| Humans |
Chauvet
- 30,000 BC |
Chauvet
- horses |
Chauvet
- rhinocerous |
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| Lascaux
- 15,000 BC |
Lascaux
- a wounded bison |
Lascaux
- a unicorn |
Lascaux
- Yellow Horse |
and generally later cave paintings have been found elsewhere
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| Kakadu
- Aboriginal |
Kakadu
- Lightning Man |
Kakadu
- people |
Kakadu
- Dancing |
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| South
African - Eland |
Mongolian |
China
- Dunhuang - hunting - 386-634 AD |
Yucutan |
| The Lascaux cave and the Chauvet cave are in France. Both of these locations, with valuable paleolithic paintings, are heavily restricted to visitors in order to preserve the paintings. The Kakadu ochre paintings in Northern Australia are in the open air in shallow caves below stone overhangs. Because they are in non-carbonaceous ochre they cannot be carbon dated and are probably much more recent. Cave art has also been dicovered in numerous locations such as South Africa, Mongolia, China, Mexico, and others. |
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