Cave Paintings in France

In the Cougnac Cave (Lot, France), a big megaloceros deer with its huge antler was represented by taking advantage of the natural relief of a wall. On top of it was painted a smail ibex, also in red, and to the right a black human figure with darts in his backside (an enlargement of this image can be seen below right).

(Below left) Still in Cougnac, two black megalocerous deer follow each other, the male is in front of the female. The red outline of a mammoth had been drawn under the characteristic hum of the male.

A beautiful horse (right) from the Portel Cave in the Ariege Pyrenees of France. Magdaleneian, i.e. about 13,000 years old.

One of the rare scenes in the Magdalenian(below), in one of the deepest passages in the Portal Cave, an disgruntled old male bison to the left, is seen leaving a female on thr right with her calf.

Pech Merle Cave

The Black Panel in the Pech Merle Cave (Lot, France). Here one can see an auroch with a mammoth behind it.