In my last post, I was attempting to refocus the discussion to the first point you made - the only image of a man captured at Lascaux was the image of a dead man.
That is most significant to me - the background for exploring the meaning of the erect phallus drawn on the dead man. Seems to me the artist intended to convey that the dead man is not completely dead, that there must be more to the man than the beast who killed him.
That's my "takeaway" too, Alamo-Girl. The artist could have chosen to depict living men. He did not, for then his seeming point could not have been made: that there is life in death, or beyond death. There seems to be an authentic spiritual recognition in play here. And that is what makes the dead man "more than" the beast that killed him.
Lascaux is a kind of epiphany. It is an amazing discovery to realize just how "sophisticated" these "primitives" were, at such an early point in human history. The ideas of a common humanity, of a common human condition, of a common human destiny, emerge from these caves....
Thank you so much for writing, Alamo-Girl!