This 14,000-Year-Old Bison Cave Sculpture Is a Fascinating Example of Ancient Art

The Sculpture is believed to be more than 14,000 years old and is regarded as the largest and finest surviving prehistoric sculptures in the world. Parts of the ancient sculpture were carved with a tool.

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors explored the surface of the planet in search of food and shelter. Beginning their journey in Africa, our ancestors are thought to have made their way across the entire planet, eventually population all corners of the world.

As they did, from time to time, they’d stop and remain settled in certain locations for different periods of time. Whether it was because they found shelter or food or had to because of the climate, they would enter cave systems and inhabit them eventually.

Some of the most interesting caves our ancestors inhabited are located in the European Continent.

In previous articles, we wrote about some of the most impressive cave artworks created by our ancient ancestor’s tens of thousands of years ago. Through illustrations inside various caves, we have come to understand that our ancestors were capable of depicting various events, some of which have even been intercepted to be astronomical in nature.

These pieces of art painted on the walls of different caves are extremely old. Cave art in Australia, for example, is believed to have appeared more than 28,000 years ago. The oldest known paintings inside caves are thought to be around 44,000 years old and are located in the Franco-Cantabrigians region in Western Europe. Still, there are also examples equally old in Indonesia. Read the free article.