What did cave paintings represent

Cave paintings were usually a way to document an important event. Since a major part of their lifestyle was hunting, their paintings generally reflected great hunts. Since cave-dwellers could neither read nor write (and they had no language as we know it), they painted their stories in pictures. They were generally simple drawings, showing how many men it had taken to hunt down a particularly difficult prey, or as a way to remember tribesmen who had perished on a hunt, or simply a reminder of something they’d encountered on their travels. Nowadays we’d simply take a photo, for the same reasons cave-dwellers painted their memories.