Editing Cave painting (section)

=== Europe ===
{{See also|Caves in Cantabria}}
[[File:20,000 Year Old Cave Paintings Hyena.png|thumb|right|30,000-year-old [[cave hyena]] painting found in the [[Chauvet Cave]], France]]
[[File:Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain-110113.jpg|thumb|[[Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain]]]]
Well-known cave paintings include those of:
* [[Cave of El Castillo]], Spain (~40,000 y.o.)
*[[Kapova Cave]], [[Bashkortostan]], Russia (~36,000 y.o.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://u7a.ru/articles/society/11854|title=Башкирия: новые исследования 'состарили' наскальные рисунки Каповой пещеры в два раза|website=u7a.ru|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>
* [[Chauvet Cave]], near [[Vallon-Pont-d'Arc]], France (~35,000 y.o.)
* [[Cave of La Pasiega]], [[Cuevas de El Castillo]], [[Cantabria]], Spain (~30,000 y.o.?)
* [[Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure]], France (~28,200 y.o.)
* [[Cosquer Cave]], with an entrance below [[sea level]] near [[Marseille, France]] (~27,000 y.o.)
* [[Caves of Gargas]], France (~27,000 y.o.)
* [[Grotte de Cussac]], France (~25,000 y.o.)
* [[Pech Merle]], near [[Cabrerets]], France (25,000 y.o.)
* [[Lascaux]], France (~17,000 y.o.)
* [[Cave of Niaux]], France (~17,000 y.o.)
* [[Font-de-Gaume]], in the [[Dordogne]] Valley, France (~17,000 y.o.)
* [[Badanj Cave]], [[Stolac]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (~16,000 y.o.)
* [[Cave of Altamira]], near [[Santillana del Mar]], [[Cantabria]], Spain (~15,500 y.o.)
* [[La Marche (cave)|La Marche]], in [[Lussac-les-Châteaux]],  France (~15,000 y.o.)
* [[Les Combarelles]], in [[Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil|Les Eyzies de Tayac]], [[Dordogne]], France (~13,600 y.o.)
* [[Cave of the Trois-Frères]], in [[Ariège (department)|Ariège]], France (~13,000 y.o.)<ref>{{cite web |title=Trois Frères |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Trois-Freres#ref=ref893311 |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online|Encyclopædia Britannica]] |language=en |access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Magura Cave]], Bulgaria (~10,000 y.o.)
* [[Solsem cave]], Norway (~3,000 y.o.)
[[File:Men of the old stone age (1915) Wolf.png|thumb|[[Polychrome]] cave painting of a [[wolf]], Font-de-Gaume, France]]

Other sites include [[Creswell Crags]], [[Nottinghamshire]], England (~14,500 ys old cave etchings and [[bas-reliefs]] discovered in 2003), [[Peștera Coliboaia]] in [[Romania]] (~29,000 y.o. art?).<ref>{{cite news |last=Tugman |first=Lindsey |url=http://www.thv11.com/news/article/171246/288/Oldest-cave-drawings-found-in-Romanian-cave |title=Oldest cave drawings found in Romanian cave |agency=CBS News |date=1 September 2011 |access-date=11 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921063051/http://www.thv11.com/news/article/171246/288/Oldest-cave-drawings-found-in-Romanian-cave |archive-date=21 September 2013 }}</ref>

Rock painting was also performed on cliff faces; but fewer of those have survived because of [[erosion]]. One example is the rock paintings of [[Astuvansalmi]] (3,000–2,500 BC) in the [[Saimaa]] area of Finland.

When [[Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola]] first encountered the [[Magdalenian]] paintings of the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain in 1879, the academics of the time considered them hoaxes. Recent reappraisals and numerous additional discoveries have since demonstrated their authenticity, while at the same time stimulating interest in the artistry and symbolism<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/hJnEQCMA5Sg Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151218194343/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg| title = Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe |author= Genevieve von Petzinger | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 18 December 2015 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> of [[Upper Palaeolithic]] peoples.
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