How a Furniture Conservator Solved a 20,000-Year-Old Ice Age Puzzle

Elements of Paleolithic cave art had confused experts since their discovery

Lascaux paintings show aurochs, horses, and deer. Image source: Wikimedia

If we travel back in time to the Stone Age, we shall see one of our ancestors’ greatest legacies: Paleolithic cave paintings. It was the start of human creativity. Early humans left a great artistic legacy.