Picturing the PastCave Paintings of Horses and a Horned Aurochs from Lascaux Cave, Southern France, ca. 15,000 B.C.E. The artist who made these amazing animals in charcoal and red ochre first smoothed the surface, just as a contemporary artist might. This cave includes paintings of hundreds of animals, including predators such as lions, as well as abstract symbols. (JM Labat/Photo Researchers, Inc.)ANALYZING THE IMAGE The artist painted the animals so close together that they overlap. What might this arrangement have been trying to depict or convey?CONNECTIONS Why might Paleolithic people have made cave paintings? What do these paintings suggest about Stone Age culture and society?