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Early Humans: Culture

Explore the fascinating world of early humans and their cave art, dating back to around 15,000 BCE in the Chauvet and Lascaux Caves in France. Discover how art served as both entertainment and a teaching tool, depicting scenes of big-game hunting and serving as a form of Sympathetic Magic. Delve into the significance of Vision Quests, where shamans communicated with the supernatural through cave paintings. Uncover the boundaries between the physical and spirit worlds, as depicted on the walls and floors of these ancient caves.

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Early Humans: Culture

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  1. Early Humans:Culture Cave Art c. 15,000 BCE Chauvet & Lascaux Caves (France)

  2. Artist’s “Canvas” • People of prehistoric times were excellent big-game hunters  consistently brought home food. • Did not need to work very hard and had plenty of leisure time  Art = FUN! • Art during this time may have been a teaching tool for kids to learn lessons about the hunt.

  3. Sympathetic Magic • Sympathetic Magic  making an image of something gives the artist power over whatever the image represents • Drawing wounded/incomplete animals could create real wounded, dead, or weakened animals = EASY to hunt

  4. Vision Quest • Walls & floors of caves = boundaries between this world and the spirit-world • Shaman communicates with and interprets the supernatural: • Dark, silence, isolation) • Hallucinogenic drugs • Pain (handprints on cave walls sometimes show mutilated hand prints) • Cave art = PORTAL to the supernatural world

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