‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place

In a world corrupted by personal and political narcissisism, the anonymous, mysterious cave artwork of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating.
By Barbara EhrenreichIn 1940, four teenage boys stumbled, almost literally, from German-occupied France into the Paleolithic age. As the story goes – and there are many versions of it – they had been taking a walk in the woods near the town of Montignac when the dog accompanying them suddenly disappeared. A quick search revealed that their anim