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Pre-Historic Cave Art & Petroglyphs

Pre-Historic Cave Art & Petroglyphs. Paleolithic Period 50,000-10,000 B.C. Created for Patterson Art Awareness by Liz Beutel. Cave Paintings from Altamira,Spain ( discovered in 1879).

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Pre-Historic Cave Art & Petroglyphs

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  1. Pre-Historic Cave Art & Petroglyphs Paleolithic Period50,000-10,000 B.C. Created for Patterson Art Awareness by Liz Beutel

  2. Cave Paintings from Altamira,Spain (discovered in 1879) • When her father tried to tell archeologists about the amazing historical find, they didn’t believe it was real because they were in such good condition even though they were 15,000 years old! This is a bison, and just one of many painted in the cave in Altamira, found accidentally by a little girl.

  3. Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. • What animals do you see? • Horses • Deer • Bison • Bull • These are from another cave in France, but also painted by Cave People.

  4. Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. • Do you think they may have drawn these while going to sleep at night inside? Maybe if they drew the animals, their hunt would go well. • Why do you think these were painted inside a dark cave instead of out where everyone could see them?

  5. Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. • Lets watch a video of the actual caves and musuem(presenter double click on urland while waiting for youtube to load,ask questions below) • What tools do you think they painted with? • Where did they get the red, orange, yellow, brown and black colors to paint with? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSq0c7jM-A

  6. Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. • The tools they used were parts of the animal(bones, hair, or sticks they had around • The paint colors were also from nature. • Yellow ochre is a mineral, black from ash, brown from clay, red from iron or berries, they didn’t have a paint store to get supplies from.

  7. Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France- 18,000 B.C. • The video explained it was not a hunting picture-there are no hunters in the scene. • In some cave paintings the shape of a hand has color blown around the outside space. Maybe this was their signature since they didn’t have names? • What do think the pre-historic people were trying to do by painting all of these animals?

  8. Cave Paintings of Lascaux, France - 18,000 B.C. Do you think it was easy for them to paint with sticks on bumpy walls in a dark cave? They Were very good for not even Knowing what a picture was or not having any art training. Maybe that is how they got so good, they didn’t have time voids (t.v.) or video games, or even books or written language then. They only had nature, animals and time to practice. By using their creativity- the Pre-Historic Cave People were the first to record history with pictures!

  9. Engraved Deer-Petroglyphs Les Combarelles, France Look at this carving into stone from another cave in France! Carvings in stone are called Petroglyphs. Imagine how difficult it must have been to carve this! The shape of the deer is so realistic and the lines of the antlers are so graceful!

  10. Pre-Historic Art in France, Spain and the United States Cave paintings and Petroglyphs have been found all over the world. But the most famous cave paintings are those of Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain.

  11. Pre-Historic Art Petroglyphs in the U.S.A • Most of the Petroglyphs found in the U.S. • are from Native American Indians. • Some are pre-historic but most were created • Within the last 200-300 years. Pyramid Lake in Nevada-over 14,000 Years old! Arches National Park, Utah

  12. Pre-Historic Art What Does is it all Mean? • Why pre-historic people began painting and etching on rock is still a mystery. Also a mystery is how similar images and symbols repeat across different populations and cultures? • Explanations by anthropologists published in 2010 Oxford Journal of Archaeology, state that they were created for religious beliefs. Many cultures had a Shaman (medicine man) who would see these patterns and images during a religious ritual.

  13. Pre-Historic Art-Review and Closure • What did you like best about your Petroglyph artworks? • Who remembers the 2 most famous areas cave paintings where found in? • What did archeologist state the reason for these cave paintings and carvings? • Why is cave art so important? • Your opinion • Altamira, Spain and Lascaux, France • Probably religious rituals and visions the Shaman (Medicine • Man) saw during ritual • Cave art is so important • because it gave us the first • History through pictures that • Recorded who and what • Lived 18,000 years ago.

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