When I visited the Lascaux Caves website, the cave I found most interesting was "The Shaft". This image contains a buffalo, which, to me, represents the quintessential, "beast-animal,"of that era. The buffalo, with its head down, looks as if it is in motion. The hog is another animal I see, and that could represent a beast with a lot of rage in it. There are dots that appear at the end of the tail. The bird and man in the image appear to just be thrown into the image. The bird and man are the most unique figures of the image. They both represent (as their heads are drawn in a bird shape) the conductor of souls.
Congrats on finding the only human depicted in the cave. Your, "hog," is supposed to be a Rhinoceros, but you are right--that animal is full of rage. These drawings were made at different times, based on paint analysis. You picked a very interesting scene! Good work.
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