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1.      I think the cave artists were trying to say something about hunting. The cave is mostly full of big game herbivores and the ninth chamber of the cave has a scene that is very indicative of a bison hunt. The abundance of animal paintings relative to human ones could have been due to spiritual purposes. Apart from a single human and bird, all the animals depicted are ones that the painter’s group would have wanted to hunt, specifically ones that could potentially harm people. There is a high concentration of large herbivores with few carnivores. This could reflect how the painter’s group could have hunted herbivores often and occasionally had to deal with predatory animals like big cats and bears. The ninth chamber shows the dangerous nature of the animals painted, a picture of a bison with what appears to be a spear embedded in it, its head is down and facing a man leaning back. This could potentially be a depiction of a real event where an impaled bison charged at...