Cultural Connections

The Stone Age in Chicago

'The Cave Paintings of Lascaux'

The famous Lascaux Caves of southern France -- or at least a life-sized replica of them --are now in Chicago. We have a preview of the new exhibit at the Field Museum on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm. View a photo gallery of the caves below.

Watch a web-exclusive video from Field Museum curator Jim Phillips, as he recounts his own visit to the actual caves in Lascaux, France in 1964:

In the following video, Phillips discusses the changing landscape and climate that the cave painters lived in: