Iconography 
Main article: Lion in the art.

First performances of lion in the Paleolithic 
Hunters Upper Palaeolithic (Aurignacian) already accounted for the lion there are over 30,000 years. The cave lion can be easily identified because of the presence of a topknot to tail tip into the depiction of paléolithique. The lion represented the side facing the observer and not in the profile of African prehistoric art because of legends that ascribe magical powers associated with its regard. Man lion, mammoth ivory carving nearly 30 centimeters high, representing the body of a man's head surmounted by a cave lion, is among the works of art the most impressive this time, but also among the oldest in the history of mankind. Perhaps she played a divinite