THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south-western France is of the highest interest. A large pine tree had blown down, and some French boys ...
These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...
In Southern France, a prehistoric cave houses paintings that date back 30,000 years, but rising waters threaten them. Archaeologists and craftsmen construct a full-sized replica of the cave to ...