CUEVA DE LAS MANOS“The Cave of the

Hands”Made from 8000

BCE to 500 BCEMost likely

created with a spraying pipe

ALTAMIRA CAVELocated in SpainCould be as much

as 35,000 years old.Paintings took as

much as thousands of years to complete.

LASCAUX CAVECave in FrancePaintings date

from about 15,000 BCE

Many of paintings damaged by carbon dioxide

CHAUVET CAVE Cave in

southern FranceOne of oldest

sites of cave artDates from

32,000 BCE to 27,000 BCE

ABORIGINAL CAVE ARTAustralian cave art“Claw-hand”Noted for interest

in bone-like structure

Likely 10,000 years old

ALGERIAN ROCK ARTDates back to

about 8000 BCEShows “"The

Great Fishing God of Sefar“

Faint antelope