Paleolithic CAVE ART



Paleolithic CAVE ART

Early people explained the cave art through stories:

Australia== Dreamtime ancestral beings created the art

Siberia== rocks were soft in ancient times and heroes could write on them

Tuareg-sahara== mythical beings painted them

Canada==evil spirits

How was it done?

Paintings/drawings: needs binding—egg white, fat, blood

Use of: finger, brush, bone, stick….spraying with mouth

Engravings (petroglyphs)= pecking, scraping, polishing, finger fluting

Themes/subjects

Images of people

Therianthropes== human and animal attributes combined

Images of animals (sources of life and death, rituals, power)

Objects= tools, weapons, jewelery, instruments, masks, bags, digging sticks

Fertility symbols== umbilical cord of baby, female features

Scenes== mating, hunting, fishing, rituals etc.

Oldest currently known rock art== India (Auditorium Cave and Daraki-Chattan)

Found all over world

Lascaux Caves in France are famous = 17,000 years old

*2,000 figures (approx)

*grouped into three categories (animals, humans, abstract)

*most of major images ‘painted’ onto walls using mineral pigments

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