If the latest interpretation of cave paintings is that they are the earliest expressions of feminism, or that they are holy depictions made exclusively by shamans and magicians, the truth is that we will never know what the truth is ... a bit like discussing religion, really.

The modern academic tendency, it seems to me, is to try to overturn standard assumptions - that males led, fed and bred, while females served and suffered - in favour of a more strident feminine role throughout history and a less dominant (interchangeable in this context with "competent") role for men. To go against these new assumptions requires a high standard of proof, and an even greater degree of courage.

Today, misandry is the norm. Clearly, the bad paintings were by man, the better ones by girls, and the best by independent cave-women who banged men on the head with clubs and dragged them by their hair, back to their caves to dominate them!