Artwork from the Lascaux caves in France

1. The Lascaux caves are located in the Lascaux woods in France.

years ago for religious and leisure purposes.

2. Prehistoric cave painters had to crawl to the very back of caves and structure their own tools like paintbrushes from flint sticks. Rocks sometimes got in the way but also added interesting textures.

3. Cro magnons painted as far as 30,000 years ago for religious and leisure purposes.

4. Here is a carved painting of a horse from the Lascaux caves.

Bison.

5. The Altamira technique was where the artist would first carve an animal. Then fill in the carved cracks with a black or dark brown color. The filling would be a similair color only a tiny bit lighter.

6. In September 1940 the Lascaux cave's artwork was discovered. Archeologists are now examining it to find more theories about what life in the stone age was like.

7. Paintings and carvings are as long as 6.5'. They were often stacked and painted over when painters ran out of room. Hard bumpy surfaces from the rocky cave created a unique texture. Some artwork was not very neat because painters had very little light seeping through the dark cave to guide them.