Paleolithic Cave Paintings Depict Mediterranean Biodiversity
30,000-20,000 BC • Chauvet, France
Paintings in Chauvet and Cosquer caves, both located in Southern France, depict the variety of early animal life in the Mediterranean Basin. At Chauvet, "a vast bestiary is portrayed…including three hundred or more different animals such as bisons, horses, bears, deer, mammoths, hyenas, panthers, lions, rhinos, reindeers, aurochs, and ibexes, as well as the only known representation in Paleolithic art of large birds such as the eagle owl. In the underwater Cosquer cave near Marseilles, paintings depict many mammals such as horses, bisons, and ibexes..."
Woodward, Jamie C. The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#/media/File:Paintings_from_the_Chauvet_cave_(museum_replica).jpg
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