cave walls
Underground chamber sides
Cave walls are the interior rock surfaces of a cave, formed through geological processes over thousands or millions of years.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of prehistoric art—early humans painted animals, hands, and symbols on cave walls: The Lascaux cave walls preserve images painted 17,000 years ago.
Cave walls may also feature natural formations like flowstone or mineral deposits.
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- rock faceSteep exposed stone surface
- darknessTotal absence of light
- torch lightPortable directed illumination
- torchHandheld burning light source
shadows · paintings · ancient · damp · water droplets · moss · echoes · rock · dripping · prehistoric · handprints · ochre · flickering · underground · underground chamber · crevice · cold · cool air
- rock artpetroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, rock carvings, hand stencils
- cavescaverns, grotto, grottos, grottoes, stalactites
- caves for childrenstalactites, stalagmites, bats, darkness, echoes
- ancient artsculpture, sculptures, pottery, mosaics, murals
- cave artLascaux, Altamira, hand stencils, handprints, prehistoric art
- writing surfacespaper, papyrus, parchment, vellum, clay tablet