Lascaux and Modern day
The Lascaux cave paintings are an interesting bit of history. I believe that the artists were trying to pass down their legacy not only their individual legacy but their group's legacy. By this I mean they are trying to say "we were here" and "this is us", the paintings are their life stories immortalized as well as some self-expression. The outnumbering amount of animals to themselves might be because that was their environment, they were surrounded by these animals, and in the early days of our history, one could imagine how secluded they may have felt while being surrounded by them. Not only were they surrounded by animals but those animals were their ways of life. They were hunted for food, their pelts used for warmth, and the rest of them for other various parts of life. In the event that they would go missing, these paintings would tell their stories. Besides telling their stories and saying "we were here", which could be considered a form of cu...