Caves

Mammoth Cave located in South-Central Kentucky was found in the 1790’s by Robert Houchins. Mr. Houchins happened upon the cave while chasing a bear that had entered the cave. Mammoth Cave is 390 miles long, which makes it the longest cave in the world. Even if the world’s second and third longest caves were combined together, Mammoth Cave would still be approximately 100 miles longer. This cave was so named because of its size, not because of the wooly mammals of the past (Kerstetter, n.d.).

Cave of forgotten dreams is a documentary film created by the German director Werner Herzog. It’s a 3D short film that takes place in the Chauvet cave which was found in the south of France. Cave of forgotten dreams is the oldest cave paintings that ever discovered; it is known for its Paleolithic cave paintings and the other evidence for the Paleolithic life. The scientists who found the cave in 1994 made a large discovery about our ancestors; they found a cave that has been perfectly maintained

of the philosopher Socrates begins to set up an analogy with an ascent and descent into “the cave”. In Socrates’ cave analogy there was a group of people who were from childhood held in a dimly lit underground cave. The people were kept there in bonds that were designed to allow them to only what was in front of them by depriving them of the ability to turn their heads around. Also present in Socrates’ cave was a certain wall or partition separating the prisoners from another group of people who simply

CAVE PAINTINGS: CHAVUET CAVE Art and the ability to think of concepts is what distinguishes our species from other animals - capabilities that also led us to use fire, develop the wheel and come up with the other technologies that have made our kind so successful ("BBC News - Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art," n.d.)The discoveries of cave art defied the then dominant view of cultural “progress” as something that gradually proceeded from a “savage” ancient past to the civilization”

Existence Looking at cave art today, we see some of our earliest ancestors. Viewing and studying cave art allows us, today, to look back in time and see how our primitive ancestors perceived the world (“Prehistoric Cave Art”). No one truly knows when cave painting first began, but “one theory links the evolution of Stone Age art to the arrival of anatomically modern humans in Europe during the period of the Upper Paleolithic (“Stone Age Cave Painting”).” With that theory in mind, cave art pretty much

us to understand the people who have come before us. This is evidenced by the knowledge humans have discovered of prehistoric men and their symbolic cave paintings. The expression, style, and meaning vary and archaeologists put in much effort to uncover these works. 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,

1) A. When “visiting” the Lascaux cave I really started to understand just how difficult it must have been for the painters to do what they did. Not only were they in a deep, winding cave, they were painting and sculpting these amazing images. I also realized just how dedicated the artists must have been to work so hard. B. The Chauvet showed me just how talented the artists were. There is such amazing attention to details. The horses, bulls, and rhinoceros’ features are so clear, and yet the painters

Many different types of art and architecture have been produced in the ancient times ranging from cave art in Paleolithic times to Stonehenge to painted terracotta plaques and many more. During the Paleolithic Culture ca. 7 million-10,000 B.C.E. homids lived and what resulted was cave art. “The most recent of these discoveries was made at the El Castillo cave in northwestern Spain, where painted disks, clublike symbols, and hundreds of handprints, at least 37,000 years old, appear to be the world’s

The Selkie swam into his undersea cave that contained his human clothing. Last evening he’d had a vision he would find his life mate in the area above the sea caves. He needed to find her as his vision was too strong to disregard. She was a well-built sturdy young Scot lass with sparkling green eyes and long dark auburn hair which flowed to her waist. He had seen her in his dream, dancing at the local Highland Gathering. The young woman in his dreams was Mackenzie Sutherland’s destiny. He

Introduction to Caves According to Dictionary.com , a cave is an underground hollow with access from the ground surface or fromthe sea, often found in limestone areas and on rocky coastlines. The way caves develop and form is called speleogenesis. Caves form when weathering of rocks, erosion, pressure, and chemical transactions takes place. Caves can take over thousands of years to form and age back to centuries ago. Most caves are usually found in limestone. Because of this, a lot of caves first start