[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

There is also another possible explanation. The animals depicted are ‘shopping lists’ from the women to the men saying, “Bring back a bison for dinner!” as she points to the bison on the wall, and the stick figures are the cavemen, which she would point to, then to the cavemen, saying this is how you are supposed to do it!

Sorry to burst your bubble. The men who hunted saw the living animals and made the great illustrations on how they ran. The women only got to see the butchered parts, the steaks. If the women painted them for a dinner menu, you would see roasts, chops, and steaks on the walls. The men with an eye for detail painted them. They kids made the stick figures.

[Red Badger]

Chauvanist!.................B^)

[PapaBear3625]

Sorry to burst your bubble. The men who hunted saw the living animals and made the great illustrations on how they ran. The women only got to see the butchered parts, the steaks. If the women painted them for a dinner menu, you would see roasts, chops, and steaks on the walls. The men with an eye for detail painted them. They kids made the stick figures.

Alternately, the paintings were used as instructional illustration for the kids, which would be why the animals were very detailed ("THIS is what an elk looks like!") while the humans would be just stick figures.

You would think that the men would teach the boys a bit about the animals they hunted, and how to approach them, BEFORE taking the boys out into the field.