Prehistoric Art Sites: The Chauvet Cave In Southern France

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.

Lascaux Cave, known in France as the Grotte de Lascaux, is a cave in France which houses prehistoric works of art. Lascaux Cave is broken off into sections which include the Axial Gallery, the famous Hall of the Bulls, the Chamber of Felines, the Nave,

There were many social and economic changes that took place in human development from the Paleolithic through Neolithic periods. First, humans invented agriculture to use in their day to day lives. Next, roles of men and women began to shift. Finally, another change between these two periods had to do with living quarters. Art was affected in all of these changes made during the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic eras.

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.

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 paintings are of 10,000 years of difference. The animal paintings are +18,000 years old and the hand paintings are 28,000 years old. There is a huge difference of time because the theory is that the cave was lost however, then it was rediscovered. The cave was

This cave had drawings of miraculous things that no one had ever seen before. The

One of the earliest evidences of the belief in a higher power comes from deep within the “Lascaux Labyrinth”, a deep cave “decorated by our Paleolithic ancestors in the stone age, seventeen thousand years ago”(Armstrong 2). The great numbers and locations of art within the Lascaux and surrounding region gives evidence that these were sacred places for the purpose of rituals, and some have compared these dwellings to temples (Armstrong 3). Whether art within cave dwellings dating back to the Paleolithic era, to magnificent churches rising to great heights around the world, the wondrous temples of the Mayans, a mountain that appears to seamlessly morph into the city of Machu Picchu, to trailers, tents and fortified compounds, belief in a power higher than one’s self has been deeply ingrained throughout centuries and a multitude of cultures. These different places are what many refer to as a church, a place to record and follow the rituals specific to their belief and to worship. Through the generations of the development of the human psyche, belief in a higher power is taught young and ingrained for many, yet meaningless for some. Furthermore, throughout the evolution of many centuries, it is inevitable that branches of these religions will follow a different path, create new churches to better practice their views of religion, and for some, belief in a higher power can be contorted to the preaching’s and worship of hate. There is a fine line between preaching scriptures and

Earliest archeological findings for hominid art seems to be during the Upper Paleolithic Age with the Homo sapiens about 40,000 years ago. Older possible examples of art could be the incised ochre in the Blombos Caves; however, archeologists and anthropologists are still trying to decipher the reasoning behind the motifs on the walls of the cave and whether to attribute the motifs to early humans. Art created in the Upper Paleolithic Age have been found in Aurignacian Europe and the Levant, a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean. The art dates to about 40,000 years ago, and on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia and certain areas of Africa, there is evidence suggesting that art may have earlier origins (Indonesian Cave Paintings As Old As Europe 's Ancient Art).

A ground breaking discovery of cave art in Africa, just found. I'm Amelia Moorehead, and I found a beautiful piece of cave art from about 20,000 years ago. It had a hand, a spear and some sort of animal antler. It told me some things about hunting. They must have cut of the antler from the animal with a spear. In the back round there is hands hitting rocks with spears. I came to the conclusion that they where flaking. I wonder if this painting is made by the persons from the paleolithic era who created flaking. It also made hints of people working together. There are hands on it and some are different.

The area of the Arago Cave is probably most well-known for the finding of the Tautavel Man fossil (http://www.saissac.com/Region/Tautavel+Man.html). The fossil was one of the oldest fossils found to date. Until this past week.

I believe the best artist happens to be the nameless artist who first drew representations of the things found around them and gave birth to the concept of art. The "Hall of the Bulls" from 16000 to 14000 BC in the caves at Lascaux(Chapter 1: Art in the Stone Age) may not be the first such painting, but having been dated as one of the earliest, is a good representation of the what the first artist created. The pitch and ocher lines on the stone backdrop of the possibly religious nature of the location meant that the first art we beheld and considered with the reverence due a turning point in human history, when man first commits to his medium the interpretation of what his senses have gleaned from the world around him, preserving the memory

The Chauvet Cave holds the earliest human paintings known in history. Because of its importance, the access to the cave is restricted, except for a few archeologists and paleontologists. However, Herzog’s crew got the opportunity to gain access to the cave and film. In general, caves are very sensitive, fragile, and narrow places. If the caves haven’t been retouched by man’s work, they are very uncomfortable and almost impossible to walk inside. However, it is necessary tot remain untouched or barely untouched so they keep their essence and important aspects such as the paintings.

Because this painting is not near the entrance of the cave, it could be drawn for the religious or spiritual purposes. The image was hidden behind another layer of cave art, so I assume that this cave was a place for rituals throughout a long period of time. This observation of the image along with its location indicate that the old Urals has much more cultural diversity than it was suggested by the historians and anthropologists before.