Recently discovered prehistoric rock paintings on small islands off the northern coast of Norway have archaeologists puzzled  The predominant theory about northern cave paintings was that they were largely a description of the current diets of the painters
This theory cannot be right, because the painters must have needed to eat the sea animals populating the waters north of Norway if they were to make the long journey to and from the islands, and there are no paintings that unambiguously depict such creatures
The cave paintings on the islands were done by the original inhabitants of the islands who ate the meat of land animals.