Learning The Cave Documentary

The author Joy McCorriston, was a student at the Institute of Archaeology in London and found out about the chance to visit the Lascaux cave from a radio show contest. Although she didn’t “win” she was lucky enough to join the tour. She listens to stories from Monsieur Jaceues Marshal, a discoverer of the cave and the cave’s guard as she gets to tour the cave. Lascaux Cave’s discovery had come about because four local boys found a hiding place to tease and abandon an outsider, a Jewish boy sent south to flee Occupation in the north. (An alternative story of a lost dog negated the real and non-politically correct truth of the cave’s discovery).

In the movie Cave of the Forgotten Dreams, director Werner Herzog and a very small crew are given the opportunity to go to France and see Chauvet Cave. While watching the start of this movie, I was very surprised to see that they were limited with how many people they could bring into the cave. I have gone to a cave in South Dakota and they took hundreds of people in it at a time. So, seeing that I think they only had like five crew members was very shocking. I was surprised though how many experts they had working on mapping the map and doing other tests on the cave. I thought maybe, there would only be like two experts in at a time and not five or six. I also didn’t know there was that many different experts that all can work on the same thing at the same time. Also, while watching I was surprised to see the equipment that they had to use.I never really thought about how the lights can affect the cave walls and the paintings.I was impressed that they filmed the movie in the cave with a non professional movie camera, I did not know that there were other cameras that could work that well in the dark of a cave.

The animals ranged from horses to rhinos, and even cave lions. The drawings were detailed enough to allow scientists to decipher the paintings and learn what they were witnessing at that period of time. Along with the paintings of the animals, bones were found in the cave and that also revealed more about the life in the cave other than just the cavemen and women. Using all of this information given to them, the scientists were able to learn not only how the cavemen and women lived but how animals lived during this time. The drawings in the cave in Southern France seemed to be quite anatomically correct to the animals roaming Earth today. The drawings are so detailed that there is not much hesitation on what type of animal they could have been drawing, it is obvious what their intent was. A surprise regarding the animal paintings was the lack of anything other than mammals. Throughout the cave there were a handful of paintings depicting insects such as butterflies and the one sole drawing of a human, but besides that they animals were mammals.

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.

The Chauvet Cave, which is located in the southern part of modern day France, is full of Palaeolithic (Paleolithic) paintings created about thirty to thirty-three thousand years ago. The last Ice Age period was estimated to be around one-hundred-and-ten to twelve-thousand years ago, and places this within it. However, it was only discovered about twenty-two years ago in 1994 by a group of “cavers” led by the man himself, Jean-Marie Chauvet. Today, the cave is compelling to many observers as it is described to be loaded with “skillfully executed” charcoal and carved creations including animals such as horses/stallions, deer-like figures, lions, hyenas, owls, panthers, and rhinos.

The authors said there were signs of human activities in the caves and that there are more archaeological work that need to be done.

Historically, it is always argued that the cave paintings during the Paleolithic period are one of the oldest recorded pieces of art. These include the hand imprints and spotted horses cave painting in Peche-Merle, France, the Halls of Bulls wall painting in Lascaux, France and the animal paintings in the Chauvet cave. While they are located in different locations, there are some common traits in these paintings. First, the cave paintings estimated to be between 13,000 and 15,000 years old, which means

The two stories in which we discuss today are The Cave and Eatting; both of them are related in character, tone, and setting, (for the most part).

There are even more types of cave formations that probably haven’t even been discovered. Entering the Timpanogos the first major thing that caught my attention was the Hidden Lake. The Hidden Lake had many formations around it but the one that caught my eye was the Shelf Stones which were formed from pooled water. Another thing the Hidden Lake had was Christmas Tree Coral which was the most recent formation to be discovered! These Christmas Tree Coral literally looked like little Christmas tree attached to the

Children take information in like a sponge so getting the story of this legend from them means its something discussed around them very often. This legend being talked at all is an example of how traditions can be kept, but changed overtime. The cave is a representation of the old taino traditions long lost to colonization, but it is now being used as an origin story by the people around the area so much so that the children already know the legend and will probably pass it on to their own children thus keeping this cave and what it means alive. After finishing this video and thought I was again sucked into the next film/video. The video was playing various films right after each other; Matrulla, Nocturno, Esto es un mensaje explosive, and Marche Salomon.

The drawings inside the caves can be interoperated in many different way as they were intentional drawings of art or as a way of instructional commutation to teach the next generation about how the world works. It is rather difficult to say at this present time the mindset the early Homo sapiens were going through when they began sketching on the walls. The cave itself still has more secrets that will eventually be

Neanderthals were originally thought to have a lower intellect than what we know now. This evidence goes to further prove that point, by showing that they understood how to break open mussels’ shells, and a somewhat understanding of seals mating season. The age of the caves is about 41,800 years old, so this just a bit before Neanderthals went extinct. The most recent evidence showing humans using marine life besides this was about 125,000 years ago, so that is also interesting.

The Cosquer cave contains several dozen works painted and engraved between 27,000 and 19,000 years ago. In order to protect this artwork, the cave is closed to the public. Still, the Cosquer cave paintings will be studied for a long time through conservation and reproduction efforts.

The cave was a very interesting story but it was also confusing all at the same time. The cave was about prisoners being trapped in a cave all there lives. The one question i am going to talk about is what the prisoners thought was true.

In Plato, Republic, Book VII, the core of the book revolves around justice and its implications from both an individual and collective perspective. Plato does not have Socrates argue that justice requires getting everyone out of the cave because in actuality, there are two parts to justice and the cave: the truth and the false. According to Plato, people often live in illusion. Illusions appeal to sensible people and their senses, whereas reality does not function with reason alone, it includes a combination of ideas and the truth (Plato 405). Therefore, the need to have everyone leave the cave is not present because each individual is there for a different reason which may not call for leaving the cave.