J Korean Med Sci.  2024 Jan;39(3):e34. 10.3346/jkms.2024.39.e34.

Lascaux Cave Painting: The Earliest Drawing of Gastrointestinal Anatomy and Physiology?

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  • 1Department of Physiology and Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 2Institute of Human-Environment Interface Biology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea


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  • Fig. 1 The Shaft scene from Lascaux Cave (ca. 15,000 B.C.).This photo is used under license from the Alamy Stock Photo site for ‘magazines and books’ purposes.Link: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-detail-of-a-cave-painting-at-lascaux-france-wounded-bison-wounded-76392081.html?imageid=53E302AC-81BE-4450-8940-B1630E591B1B&p=75935&pn=1&searchId=6ab1490e4a57bbf11d51f639a50dc874&searchtype=0.


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