Write An Essay On Lascaux Museum

Watching this documentary was exceedingly intriguing and I would recommend it for others. A rock slide covered the original entrance creating a time capsule to preserve the beautiful art work and the oldest paintings discovered. Learning the cave was perfectly sealed for thousands and thousands of years brings up several questions and is simply fascinating. They described the paintings as fresh because it looked as if it was done just yesterday but, there was something growing on them proving it was aged. There was also torch scrapings from about 28,000 years ago; scientists were able to determine this with current technology. I would imagine since they found many animal skull remains that it could have been possible some animals were trapped for quite some

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 Caves contains many images depicting animals, religion and art. The paintings date back to around 15,000 BC and are categorised into paintings of animals, human figures and abstract signs or writing. In total Lascaux’s passageways extend to 240m and contain around 2,000 paintings 900 of which are mostly extinct animals depicting both feared predators and animals they hunted for food.

Lascaux Cave and Stonehenge are both prehistoric pieces of artwork that reflect the values and beliefs of their respective time periods. They both have ties to astronomy, with the former depicting constellations in the form of animals and the latter being aligned to the Sun’s solstitial axis. But the main similarity between the two is the fact that they served a higher purpose than simply being art. They both had a function and meant something to the cultures that built them. They are both highly influential pieces of art that inspired many generations of people.

The cave paintings of Chauvet-Pont-D 'Arc are one of the oldest prehistoric sites in the world. It is located in the Ardeche region of southern France. Chauvet-Pont-D 'Arc cave was only discovered as recently as 1994. Jean-Marie Chauvet and his team of cavers just happened to stumble upon it when they removed a rumble of stones that blocked the passageway (Introduction to the Cave). This is such an extraordinary piece of art history due to the time period and what it can tell us about our history. Through the rich history, to the art inside the caves, and the interpretation of what it means, Chauvet-Pont-D 'Arc cave it is nothing less then a story that has to be told.

Pech Merle cave in south-western France has been a sacred sanctuary for at least five times as long as the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Unlike the pyramid the entire cave was man made, for the most part, the innards of the cave were made out of limestone massif by an underground river. When the river switched up its the course a four kilometer long cave was left behind. It stayed untouched and no human ever visited, until humans finally

I want to start off by discussing when and where Paleolithic cave paintings originated. During the Paleolithic Era that lasted from 30,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE, the first achievements in human creativity happened. Paleolithic cave paintings demonstrate civilizations early ability to talk to each other and their interpretations of their surroundings. Lascaux Cave is one location where these cave drawings were discovered. The cave is located in Lascaux, France. It has nearly 2,000 drawings that can be divided into three different types: people, geometric signs and animals. Drawings of humans were very rare and when they were compared to the more detailed and life-like images of animals, the human figures seemed meek. When it comes to the animal

A prehistoric archaeologist’s goal, as per Scupin and DeCorse (2013:5), is to decipher the beliefs and mindset of past societies, particularly early inhabitants of Europe and America, through their material culture, such as the cave art found in Lascaux. This cave, located in southern France, contains what is believed to be one of the oldest artistic representations of wild animals and art; it has captured the interest of numerous scientists, philosophers and historians, all of whom wish to make sense of these enigmatic images (Lippit 2002:20). With the multitude of minds working to decode these images, it comes as no surprise that there are a variety of unique interpretations of these paintings

The Paleolithic humans who created the art in the Chauvet Cave are some of the world’s earliest historians. Capturing the imagery of the animals of their time has broadened the modern human understanding of a time lost. The true purpose of the Chauvet Cave will never be known but many inferences have been made since the discovery.

Despite the fact that The Harp does not exist in its final form, its legacy continues through numerous photographs and souvenir reproductions. I was really impressed with the sculpture and the history of its

Throughout its history Paris has been able to overcome some immense obstacles in the realm of urbanization and preservation. Paris has grew into one of the most documented cities, in the aspect of preservation, in the world. For hundreds of years Paris has been a good model of how a city should document and preserve buildings. In 1837, a man named François Guizot had a goal of documenting various monuments in order to pick and choose which should be preserved and when. Usually the ones in the worst conditions would be the ones that he documented as needing immediate attention. His team consisted of anybody from Conservationists to even architects. Their mission was not only to figure out which buildings or monuments needed attention, but to

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.

I find it fascinating, that individuals have so much devotion to reconstructing and preserving the memory and view of a structure that they would completely rebuild and replicate it on the site.

Many, many years ago, a cave was in use, and many paintings, drawings, and engravings were put on the walls of the cave. About ten years ago, a man was diving in the Mediterranean and came across something that no one would ever think about finding. It was a prehistoric painted cave with an underwater entrance. It is known today as the Cosquer cave.

Finally, a knowledgeable cave explorer must have a healthy respect for nature. Caves have a very delicate balance which allows them to produce the beautiful formations spelunkers adore. Merely touching an active formation stops forever its continual building process, for oils from human skin dramatically upset its delicate balance. Even more so, smoking and littering in caves damage caverns irrepairably for future generations. A respect for nature is essential to the preservation of caves and therefore to the continuation of the sport of