Margaret Chauuvet Cave

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.

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.

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

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.

The earliest drawings have been nothing however pure line drawing in which the silhouette of the animal used to be traced in yellow or red, generally with only the limbs on the one aspect shown. As time handed the prehistoric cave artist became more precise in his visible representations of primitive beasts. The equipment of the prehistoric artists were flint burin for engraving and a brush, made from animal hair, feathers or fur connected to sticks. Chips of red ocher have been determined that may additionally have been used like pastel crayons. The colors have been applied between the outlines of the drawing and have been combined into a paste with egg white or resin as a binding medium. It is fascinating that once the genuine hunt was once

On September 12, 1940, four French teenagers discovered something very extraordinary in a cave. Their dog had fallen into a cave and they could not get it out. A few days later after the dog was rescued, the four boys went back to the cave to see what was inside it. After the tough one of the group was repelled into the cave by his friends, he could not believe what he was seeing. The group found artifacts that dated back to the prehistoric times. Over the next few days the teenagers explored much farther, and reported back to their teacher. They contacted a local cave art specialist that knew all about these kinds of writings. Soon after the discovery was made many visitors came from near and far just to see the cave writings. They found paintings of bison and horses running free in an open field, and there were many colors that the prehistoric people used in their paintings.

This picture is from the well of the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 16000-14000 BCE. It is an example of Paleolithic art and also known as one of the earliest cave art appearances in prehistoric. In this art work, we can see there is a rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison. We can also understand the hunter’s gender easily in this work. We have no idea what the purpose is, but it could be just a story which is drawn by the artists at that time.It is unique because it could be the earliest narrative art work in human’s

They sealed the cave and would only permit people, by invitation, to enter the cave. Once in the cave, the people were admonished to touch nothing and to only stay on the metal paths that had been installed. People were only allowed inside during March and part of April each year, although the film never explained why this short period was the only available time. In the postscript, the film showed some nearby dangers that may affect the drawings, the nuclear power plant in itself could ruin the drawings if it was to have a meltdown. Also, the waste products from the power plant have raised the ambient temperature in the ecosystem close to the caves, which may affect the inside temperature of the caves. These caves and the drawings inside them have been around for thirty thousand years, yet our current society could cause damage in a scant twenty

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

When we first arrived there, the showed us a 4-5 minute video about Crystal Cave. I learned that the cave was founded in 1881 by two brothers, William and George Vanasse. I also learned that they had both carved their names in the walls of the cave and you can still see them right now. But Crystal Cave wasn’t just a normal cave that you explore in, back then, people used it for weddings, parties, etc. The room where they held these events is still fully functional, so you can still go in there, but I don’t think you can have a party in there anymore. When we finally got into the cave, our tour guide told us that there are colonies of brown bats living in the cave, but they have their own part of the cave, so you can’t bother them. It was cold in the cave, so everyone wore a sweatshirt. We also saw many different rock formations such as animals, ice cream, and even one that looks like Donald Duck! There were many glistening and shining crystals that William and George had thought were diamonds, but they were just a very common crystal. They had a cave formation that you could touch. The tour guide called them rotten eggs because they looked like eggs that had been dropped and never cleaned up. When I touched them, they were smooth and moist, yet somehow warm and lumpy. They had a rare rock formation, a column! A column is created when a stalactite and a stalagmite combine together form one long pillar. These

Now, it is nearly impossible to get into the cave without special equipment. Only some specialists have visited the cave. Still, the French Ministry of Culture set up a special commission to study the Cosquer cave in an attempt to preserve the art that is left.

During the Paleolithic Period, as stated by many historians and museums, many forms of arts were discovered deeply into the caves. As some may wonder, what was the reason will they be found in caves and not in other places? According to the Experience Humanities by Roy T. Matthews, it could have been possible that the earlier cultures were improving their hunting skills by bringing their techniques into art form for a better analysis. Although it is a great explanation and

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,

understand the images that are being projected onto the cave’s wall, you will be successful in life

Written language is perhaps one of the most defining characteristics of human society. Since it was developed thousands of years ago in the Mesopotamia region it has advanced into what we know it to be now, allowing humans to express themselves through symbols (Mark). However, even before the first written languages were being formed, paintings lined the walls of ancient caves. These cave paintings were the precursors to the written language, explaining a plethora of things, ranging from ideas and feelings to tracking herds. These cave paintings have long been considered unnecessary as they were replaced and forgotten with the rise of formal written languages. Yet, it appears the need for images is back, not to replace our current written languages, but rather to work in tangent with them.