Lascaux Cave
Art Treasures from the Ice Age

Author: Jean-Philippe Rigaud
Publisher: National Geographic, October 1998.
Number of Pages: 17

Astonishing the eye, a cavern in southwest France preserves the creativity of Paleolithic artists, who painted and engraved hundreds of images here 17,000 years ago. On the brilliant white calcite walls of the Hall of the Bulls, painters evoked on a grand scale the animals they knew.

Photographs by Sisse Brimberg and Norbert Aujoulat