Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

They also feature prominently in another French cave, Cosquer in Marseille, where 28 of the 49 hand stencils are missing digits. One idea is that Stone Age people deliberately removed their digits.

Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing By Alison George 4 January 2023 ...

If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick figures, humans hunting woolly mammoths? Well, yes. But more than 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers also started including ...