hyenas and bears—perhaps the oldest paintings in the world. The artists weren't the cave's only occupants: the floor is covered with 150 cave bear skeletons, and its soft clay still holds paw ...

Unlike other Paleolithic paintings, typically made with ocher ... The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ago, and its placement allows the team to determine ...

The bear, hidden within the third bull of the section ... a rarity in Paleolithic cave art. The ithyphallic humanoid is found on the Panel of the Wounded Man, facing a disemboweled bison at ...