cave art

noun

paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters, especially naturalistic depictions of animals, produced by Upper Paleolithic peoples of western Europe between about 28,000 and 10,000 years ago.

Nearby words

cavan, cavate, cavatelli, cavatina, cave, cave art, cave bear, cave canem, cave cricket, cave dweller, cave fish

Origin of cave art

First recorded in 1920–25