* Many of the links on this page are now broken - I will try to get to them soon*

Images from classic and recent sites (maintained by le Centre National de la Préhistoire):

Lascaux: (The links to the French archeological sites are quite unreliable--Try Here for some Lascaux images) or go directly to particular sections of the cave below see plan of the cave).

la Salle des Taureaux (The Great Hall of the Bulls) - Text and Images

le Diverticule Axial (The Axial Chamber) - Text and Images

le Passage (The Lateral Passage) - Text Only

l'Abside (The Chamber of Engravings) - Text Only

le Puits (The Shaft) - Text and Image

le Nef (The Nave) - Text Only

le Diverticule aux Félins (The Chamber of Felines) - Text Only

Other Sites in France

Font de Gaume (or try going directly to this index of images)

Grotte de Cougnac (index)

Grotte de la Baume-Latrone (index)

l'Abri Bourdois, Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne

Grotte Cosquer

Grotte de Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc : Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche

 
 

Mobiliary graphics: Much of the graphic material from the Upper Paleolithic consists of "portable" art, employing small and large pebbles, slabs of rock, and fragments of antler, bone, and ivory. A common theme of mobiliary and, to a lesser degree, parietal graphics is that of the "venus figures" that may provide clues to the evolution of signs.  Mothers of Time An exhibition of Paleolithic Figures from the Louis Alexandre Jullien Collection.

 

More paleolithic and neolithic graphics:

Prehistory Page: Numerous links to many topics in Prehistory

 
 

The Astonishing Creativity of Prehistoric People: A diverse collection of images from the Ice-Age.

Photo Gallery of La Garma: Paleolithic Graphics

Rock-Links: This site contains a very large and diverse set of related links.

Rock Art.

Images from Chaco Canyon

Valcamonica Rock Art

Links to Rock Arts Sites

The Stone Pages: Megalithic Sites

Bone fragment with incised Reindeer - Magdelenian

Articles and News Items

The oldest musical? picture and article - "You know how to whistle, don't you?"

• Neanderthal Flute uses do re mi scale - Musicological Analysis: Bob Fink

Sex, Lies, and Ochre: Ochre and sexual deception. Knight, Chris & Power, Camilla (1995). British Archaeology, 2, March 

Struggling Artists of the Ice Age. Pettitt, Paul (1995). British Archaeology, 6

The Prehistory of Sex: Explaining the early human mind, Taylor, Timothy (1996). British Archaeology, 15, June

Thematic changes in Upper Palaeolithic art: a view from the Grotte Chauvet. Clottes, Jean (1996). Antiquity: An international journal of expert archaeology, 70.

Evolution and Revolution in Cave Art: Tim Appenzeller, Science

News Items

Jinmium Rock Shelter less thatn one-tenth original age estimates: Science Daily

Discovery of cave "crayon"

Oldest "cave" dwellers

TIME magazine articles on Paleolithic Graphics:

Ardèche discovery

Behold the Stone Age

Ancient Odysseys

Psychology, Culture, and Evolution