08 May 2009, Australia --- Wandjina figures are among the most visually striking of all ancient Aboriginal art found in the Kimberley region. Created by the Worrorra people, the paintings are said to depict creator beings who made the world and all it contains. Wandjina are usually painted as full-length or head and shoulder figures with large mouthless faces and with enourmous eyes flanking a beak-like nose. The paintings shown here are seen on a cave ceiling at Raft Point, Collier Bay, Western Australia. --- Image by © Dave G. Houser/Corbis
06 Jun 2011, Spain --- Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork of bison on the wall of a cave. These paintings are found in La Covaciella cave, Asturias, Spain. They are thought to date from the Palaeolithic era, around 35,000 to 11,000 years ago. --- Image by © Javier Trueba Rodriguez/Science Photo Library/Corbis
06 Jun 2011, France --- Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork depicting various animals painted on the wall of a cave. These paintings are found in the Chauvet Cave, France, the site of the earliest known cave paintings (as of 2011), which have been dated to between 32,900 and 30,000 years ago. --- Image by © Javier Trueba Rodriguez/Science Photo Library/Corbis
08 May 2009, Australia --- Wandjina figures are among the most visually striking of all ancient Aboriginal art found in the Kimberley region. These scenes, created by the Worrorra people on a cave ceiling at Raft Point in Collier Bay, are said to depict a "great fish chase," showing figures representing both rock cod and dugong and their Wandjina captors. These paintings, estimated to be about 8000 years old, were restored recently by Kimberley Aboriginal artist Donnie Woolagoodja. --- Image by © Dave G. Houser/Corbis
06 Jun 2011, France --- Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork depicting various animals painted on the wall of a cave. These paintings are found in the Chauvet Cave, France, the site of the earliest known cave paintings (as of 2011), which have been dated to between 32,900 and 30,000 years ago. --- Image by © Javier Trueba Rodriguez/Science Photo Library/Corbis
06 Jun 2011, France --- Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork of horses painted on the wall of a cave. These paintings are found in the Chauvet Cave, France, the site of the earliest known cave paintings (as of 2011), which have been dated to between 32,900 and 30,000 years ago --- Image by © Javier Trueba Rodriguez/Science Photo Library/Corbis