France. Lot. Cabrerets. Pech Merle is a cave which opens onto a hillside in the Occitania region in France, east of Cahors. The caves and caverns were originally created by rivers rushing through the rocks. Pech Merle is one of the few prehistoric cave painting sites in France that remain open to the general public. Extending for more than a mile from the entrance are caverns, the walls of which are painted with dramatic murals dating from the Gravettian culture - about 25,000 years BC. Some of the paintings and engravings, however, may date from the later Magdalenian era - 16,000 years BC. Here is the panel of women-bison, bison stylised as women with on the right an outline of a hand in red and red dots. To the left red dots are accompanied by other drawings of women-bison in a darker red. 2016