Early humans probably didn't have a sophisticated language in the past, maybe some hand gestures and few words for simple meanings. When they wanted to express themselves and their culture, they had to draw.
Their drawing included many things: hunts gone well and gone bad, running animals, people, fire, and so on. Modern humans, if given a piece of paper and asked to draw something, they would probably draw people, houses, dogs and cats, modern things you see everyday that people understand. Not so different with early humans.
They wouldn't draw something they know absolutely nothing about. They'll draw something they see everyday, like animals. They didn't cut down trees to make way for buildings, they lived with the trees, with the bugs and the animals. When they draw, they're sharing something with you because it's one of their ways of communicating. When a group of early humans get together for a meeting, the leader or whoever it is sharing what they want to, they do it in drawings, and maybe some of the simple language that they have. Him drawing a group of animals running might be him explaining something he saw that day. Or maybe it is a warning of animals coming near where they live.
Seeing these drawing let us know what the early humans did and saw. It lets us know how much we've evolved. It lets us know how different our lives and their lives really are. And they are definitely different.
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