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Pre-Historic Cave Art & Petroglyphs Paleolithic Period 50,000-10,000 B.C. Created for Patterson Art Awareness by Liz Beutel Cave Paintings from Altamira,Spain (discovered in 1879) This When is hera father bison, tried and just to tell one archeologists of many painted in about the the caveamazing in Altamira, found historical accidentally find, they by a little didn’t girl. believe it was real because they were in such good condition even though they were 15,000 years old! Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. What animals do you see? • Horses • Deer • Bison • Bull These are from another cave in France, but also painted by Cave People. 3 Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. •Why Do you dothink you they thinkmay these have drawn were painted these while insidegoing a dark to sleep cave at instead night of inside? out where Maybe ifeveryone they drewcould the animals, see them? their hunt would go well. 4 Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. Lets watch a video of the actual caves and musuem (presenter double click on url and while waiting for youtube to load,ask questions below) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSq0c7jM-A What tools do you think they painted with? Where did they get the red, orange, yellow, brown and black colors to paint with? 5 Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. • The tools they used were parts of the animal(bones, hair, or sticks they had around • The paint colors were also from nature. • Yellow ochre is a mineral, black from ash, brown from clay, red from iron or berries, they didn’t have a paint store to get supplies from. 6 Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. What do think the pre-historic people were trying to do by painting all of these animals? The video explained it was not a hunting picturethere are no hunters in the scene. In some cave paintings the shape of a hand has color blown around the outside space. Maybe this was their signature since they didn’t have names? 7 Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France - 18,000 B.C. Do you think it was easy for them to paint with sticks on bumpy walls in a dark cave? • They Were very good for not even Knowing what a picture was or not having any art training. • Maybe that is how they got so good, they didn’t have time voids (t.v.) or video games, or even books or written language then. They only had nature, animals and time to practice. • By using their creativity- the Pre-Historic Cave People were the first to record history with pictures! Engraved Deer-Petroglyphs Les Combarelles, France Look at this carving into stone from another cave in France! Carvings in stone are called Petroglyphs. Imagine how difficult it must have been to carve this! The shape of the deer is so realistic and the lines of the antlers are so graceful! Pre-Historic Art in France, Spain and the United States Cave paintings and Petroglyphs have been found all over the world. But the most famous cave paintings are those of Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain. Pre-Historic Art Petroglyphs in the U.S.A Most of the Petroglyphs found in the U.S. are from Native American Indians. Some are pre-historic but most were created Within the last 200-300 years. ches National Park, Utah Pyramid Lake in Nevada-o 14,000 Years old! Pre-Historic Art What Does is it all Mean? Why pre-historic people began painting and etching on rock is still a mystery. Also a mystery is how similar images and symbols repeat across different populations and cultures? • Explanations by anthropologists published in 2010 Oxford Journal of Archaeology, state that they were created for religious beliefs. Many cultures had a Shaman (medicine man) who would see these patterns and images during a religious ritual. Pre-Historic Art-Review and Closure What did you like best about your Petroglyph artworks? • Your opinion Who remembers the 2 most famous areas cave paintings where found in? • Altamira, Spain and Lascaux, France What did archeologist state the reason for these cave paintings and carvings? • Probably religious rituals and visions the Shaman (Medicine Man) saw during ritual Why is cave art so important? • Cave art is so important because it gave us the first History through pictures that Recorded who and what Lived 18,000 years ago.