Cave Paintings Such As Those At Lascaux And Altamira

The part of the reading that had me most engaged and interested was the section on the cave paintings done by the early humans. The way that they painted these images were just so intricate and with so much detail, it had me in awe. The fact that some of these animals seemed to be drawn in motion gives me the inclination that it was something more meaningful than drawing for the sake of making art, a lot of time and effort must have been spent on this for it not to have some sort of human meaning. In the reading, it says that the one drawing that was thought to be of sick or injured bison were actually depicting the mating dance and rituals of these majestic creatures. In the reading it says the meanings of these paintings could have been

This study is focus on the 11th Unnamed Cave in Tennessee. This cave was the first of its kind because this cave is the only one that was found to contain pictograph, petroglyph, and mud glyph all in one site. The article explain that the site is significant because there are evidence to showed that the site underwent a series of diverse but interrelated uses. The first out of all the cave sites to contain all three different form of rock art. Also, because the site was found in the eighteenth century which had some form of documentations on the uses of the cave. The authors believes that since the cave showed many different kind of activities, it is possible that the activities reflect a complex behaviors more elaborated and sacred than

This article talks about the study of the Dunbar Cave in Montgomery County, Tennessee to learn more about the varied ways that the cave was used by people. Many of the artifacts that was in the cave linked its usage time to be from the Late Paleo-Indian to the Mississippian period. The article define dark-zone cave art as “the decorations in the areas of the caves that is beyond the reach of external lights”. Mug Glyph Cave art was found in the 12th Unnamed Cave in Tennessee and since then sixty-nine other caves that had dark-zone cave art were found. The artifacts and chronological data from these sites indicates that the tradition of cave art began 6000 years ago.

The last article talks about the 59th Unnamed Cave, in Florida. This cave is located in the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle. From the dates of the artifacts and the dates of the glyph, the site was occupied in the Late Woodland period. The cave was discover in 2007 when a group of cave explorer saw fine engravings on the wall. This site was the first cave art site that was found in Florida and it is the second rock art site that was found in the states. Rock art is very rare in Florida, but now with the site found there is a wider perspective on the importance of rock art. The site did not only include the petroglyph drawing of the past, but it included some artifacts that was use to help date the time that the cave was occupied.

Joy describes Lascaux as a beautiful, prehistoric cave located in Sarlat, France that became closed to the public due to high carbon dioxide, mold, human footprint, and contamination levels. Due to the diminishing natural integrity of the cave and the art on its walls, the cave has since been sealed off. It is estimated that the cave was painted 17,000 years ago, when the world was at about the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), the coldest it has been for the past 70,000 years. Some of the paintings show some of the extinct animals, bison, horses, ibexes, no fish, wolves, raptors, or mammoths. This didn’t mean those animals didn’t exist in this area though, why did the humans at this time select these animals? There were generations of humans living in these

From the images found on pages 10 and 15 as well as the Visual Source, you can derive that animals and hunting were a big part of the Paleolithic lifestyle. Although scholars have not been able to find out if the rock art had a religious meaning or was for telling stories, they know that these pieces of art are a direct connection to the past.

Do you know anything about cave paintings? Well I am here to inform you about them. For example, the majestic paintings of bison in Cosquer Cave. In Altamira more beautiful animals of the Ice Age. In Lascaux too were majestic animals like horse, deer, bison, etc. These facts are truly amazing. These caves are jewels of mother nature. Also, about Carbon 14 Dating and how it works with its formulas.

“I’ve been balled up in the cave thinking about hieroglyphics. Or, I guess, pictographs. On one of our day hikes last we, the jailers took us to a secret place where Native Americans had drawn things on a cave wall. [...] The pictographs were faded, barely even there, but John pointed them out, one by one. There was a circle, big X’s, a bird, fire, a man with wavy arms, and rain clouds. [...] He also explained that some wall art dated back to 7000 BC and said that we were in the presence of “America’s earliest storytelling documents. He said that the pictographs were painted by mixing natural minerals with plant and animal oils to make colored paints, which were then put on the walls with fingers or brushes made out of animal hair or yucca leaves.” (Van Draanen)

The images found in Lascaux caves have been immaculately preserved for thousands of years due to the cave being untouched beneath the earth for so long. It is because of their amazing preservation that we are able to understand the past through their images.

During the first time period of Prehistoric Art, I decided to choose a recreation of the Hall of the Bulls located in the Lascaux Cave. The Hall of the Bulls best represents the type of artistry that humans created in 13,000 BCE. This image is important because it gives present people an idea of how our past selves functioned. Within 13,000 BCE, we understood the concept of religious beliefs such as shamanism, which is when our people

Lascaux Cave and Stonehenge are both prehistoric pieces of artwork that reflect the values and beliefs of their respective time periods. They both have ties to astronomy, with the former depicting constellations in the form of animals and the latter being aligned to the Sun’s solstitial axis. But the main similarity between the two is the fact that they served a higher purpose than simply being art. They both had a function and meant something to the cultures that built them. They are both highly influential pieces of art that inspired many generations of people.

After watching all of the cave painting videos, it is my opinion that the cavepeople were painting for ritualistic reasons. As I watched the videos, I repeatedly noticed the elaborate details and effort put into each painting of an animal. This shows that the animals were very important to them, since they did not paint much of anything else. The animals that were painted were usually bison, horses, rhinos, and other animals that were preyed upon by the cavepeople. This theme makes me think that the females, who may have stayed back while the males went to hunt, painted what they hoped their mates would bring back after their outing. The paintings usually portray prey with large bodies, which would be a lot of food for them if they killed such

In my I chose to compare two cave paintings from the paleolithic period, The first cave in called Lascaux, and the second cave called Altamira. As we know that the Paleolithic time period is from 30,000 BC to 10,000 BC. The most common theme in cave painting during that time period was like a bunch of a large animals such as bison, horses, cows, deers, lions, birds, and aurochs. In those two pieces of cave painting I found alots of common stuff like the animals and the story of the painting as well but their are some differences like the purpose of the paintings, so in the first cave painting which is the Lascaux Their was a story behind this painting which is telling us about the wars during that time period; in the second cave painting which

I had an experience that each represents the symbol towards the Allegory of the Cave. My childhood was mostly in Jamaica where I lived with my father for two to three years. I can relate to the symbols from the "Allegory of the Cave".

The first evidence of cave art appeared in Western Europe (Berenguer 67). Early cave paintings were characteristic of Western art. They were supported by an acute vision,