HE ancient cave painters used a form of it.

In any event, the cave painters left the first clear expressions of symbolic thought and a strong argument for speech as a recent development.

They seemed to show none of the aptitude for art displayed by the cave painters who were their contemporaries and successors.

Throughout the book, the illustrations mesh with examples from great painters, beginning with the anonymous cave painters of 25,000 years ago in France.

They might as well be monastic scribes or cave painters.

Ever since cave painters began sketching horses, bison, elephants and the like, artists have wrestled with the relationship between man and nature.

Recent new dating techniques of cave art has suggested the possibility Neanderthals were cave painters.

Since the days of the cave painters, art has been in the service of gods or spirits, religion, royalty, country, community and individual patrons.

Ug then grows up to be a cave painter as his mother Dugs warned him.

This is like an anthropologist describing the cave painters of Lascaux after examining Versailles.