Book Review

The bounty of this art is a celebration. The brief text by a long-admired writer is clear, informed, and measured, just right for readers in the middle grades and upward. It is knit into a lustrous set of large color photographs of European cave art, well supported by modern paintings (in particular, reconstructions by Jack Unruh) and by apt photos of ancient carvings and implements…Here are full masterpieces, bison and reindeer, cave lions and spotted horses, done hundreds of centuries back, when wooly rhinos roamed the south of France. The carbon dating that fixes those times long before history is made credible in a simple page or two…

~ Philip and Phylis Morrison, Scientific American excerpt

I loved this book. Very balanced presentation of the various theories behind cave painting in general and the Chauvet cave in particular.

~ Anne Hayden, Natural Resources Consultant, author

My son found this book quite interesting for its pictures. It fostered appreciation for human history and science and art. Would be an excellent text for a classroom art or history unit.

~ Marjorie Tennyson, Science Teacher, Hall-Dale School, Hallowell