Hundreds of carvings of prehistoric animals, and women, line a cave in southwest France. For 4 weeks a year researchers are ...

Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros ...

Jaubert thinks the cave may have been used for initiation ceremonies, "a rite of passage for adolescents to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive hunter-gatherer groups.

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac ... to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive hunter-gatherer groups. It would also have been seen ...

Jaubert thinks the cave may have been used for initiation ceremonies, "a rite of passage for adolescents to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive hunter-gatherer groups.