Cave 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.)> PICTURING THE PASTANALYZING 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?