Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

By Colin Barras

PHILIPPE PSAILA/science PHOTO

Stone Age occupants of Europe had a distinctive fixation on horses. Nearly one in every three animals they depicted on cave walls used to be a horse and the photography are in general greater and purchase extra prominent positions than these of diverse animals. However, why the horse loomed so mountainous in dilapidated minds could perchance just remain eternally a thriller.

Since the 1990s, Georges Sauvet at the College of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France, has been compiling a database of European Stone Age (or Palaeolithic) art. Currently that database contains recordsdata on extra than 4700 drawings, …