A number of prehistoric paintings still survive on the walls of caves in Spain and southern France. They show with amazing accuracy a wide 1 of animals which the cave dwellers hunted, such as bison and deer, and are quite remarkable for their life and power. It is very 2 that the pictures were connected with hunting. There is a very famous example in Lascaux, in which we can just 3 out a man among some animals. There is also a collection of dark dots in the painting. The meaning of the picture is not clear; it does, however, show that the cave 4 were artistic people in many ways. More than 5000 years ago, the Egyptians began painting on the walls of their tombs everything that went on in their daily lives. They believed that the figures of people, 5 and everyday topics would enter the afterlife with the dead person.