Swimming Stags, Lascaux cave, France The Boy’s Own story of the discovery in 1940 of the linked caves at Lascaux in the Vezere valley in France, and the 600 or so 17, 000-year-old paintings inside them by schoolboy Marcel Ravidat and his mischievous scamp of a dog Robot can be found in all histories of Prehistoric art. Since Lascaux, older sites and cave art have been found: the Chauvet cave, discovered in 1994, contains friezes as well preserved and of comparable beauty as t