Cave Paintings of Chauvet

Watched the Werner Herzog documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams last night. In 1994, three cavers found this previously unknown cave in the south of France, which boasts the oldest cave paintings known to us to date: approximately 30,000 to 33,000 years old. What strikes me is how technically accomplished they are; the depictions along with the sense of motion are uncanny. The question that keeps occurring to me is: Why do they only depict animals? These aren't animals being hunted, as in other cave paintings. Also: Why no humans? It is said that the birth of the modern human is here, manifested by artistic consciousness.

View the work of the shaman of modern day wall paintings Robert Janz here.