Return to Chauvet Cave edited by Jean Clottes, Thames & Hudson, £45, ISBN 0500511195 Reviewed by Douglas Palmer
A MUST for anyone interested in art, let alone cave art, Return to Chauvet is a large-format, beautifully illustrated celebration and analysis of the remarkable artistic talents of our remote European ancestors. Stunning charcoal and ochre drawings of the animals of southern Europe’s late Ice Age “game park” adorn the walls of this Ardèche cave system.
Horse, bison, giant deer, bear, mammoth, rhino, big cats and so on are all depicted with the curious sensitivity and wariness of the big-game hunter’s trained…
