Lascaux cave, a map of the prehistoric sky

The marvellous cave of Lasaux which is 17000 years old and possesses a wealth of dozens of horses, bisons and bulls painted on its dark walls was not just a sacred temple where the men of the times, called by the specialists the prehistoric equivalents of Michelangelo, represented their myths and beliefs. It appears they were already capable of astronomical observations and they inscribed them on the rock walls of the cave. They may have indeed tried to represent the constellations of the Superior Paleolithical sky, but also the sun and moon positions at precise moments, 15000 years before Christ, when they left their mark for ever and became Mankind's first astronomers...