Visual Source 1.1: Lascaux Rock Art

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One of the most dramatic and perplexing images from Lascaux, shown here as Visual Source 1.1, depicts a human male figure lying in front of a wounded and enraged bison, pierced with a broken spear, and with its entrails hanging out. To the left is a rhinoceros and beneath its tail two rows of three dots.

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Visual Source 1.1 Lascaux Rock Art (bpk berlin/Art Resource, NY)
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