NOVA · Season 2 · Episode 6

“The Men Who Painted Caves”

Aired Monday 9 December 1974

Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 years ago take time out from the desperate business of survival to paint pictures in inaccessible corners of his cave dwellings? NOVA joins French and American archeologists as they piece together the lifestyle of these hunters of the last great Ice Age, and try to interpret the meaning of their cave art.

S2 E6 discussion