Why are most of the cave drawings discovered of prehistoric animals and no people?
I think you will find more drawings of humans in prehistoric caves than you think! If you carefully look at the drawings, the humans are usually smaller and less significant that the animal counterparts. This is because animals were considered the most important part of the structure of the tribe. In fact, animals, especially buffalo were considered more important than the tribal members because of the purpose of the animal…food. It is believed that cave drawings were tribes way of passing down the stories of the great hunt. The drawings were also used to describe the birth and death of a great tribal member. But the animal was a primary significance in the life of the tribal members and were therefore depicted on the walls as a tribute to them for their food source. Although we will never know the actual reasoning behind the animal drawings and why there are few humans in the drawings, I would suspect that the artist was drawing as though they were looking at the animals and not par
