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cave paintings
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- 1cave paintings-most paintings were animals because of the dependence of food from animals
-Believed to paing before hunting because of the magic that it made their prey weaken and easier to hunt
-Painted on natural rocks surface making it add depth to the forms - 2Bison Paintings-15,000 to 10,000 BC and located Altamaria Caves
-the cave was found in 1879 by a hunters dog falling
-a 5-year old girl could only see them on the roof because it was to small for adults to come in
-animals painted in shades of red, brown and black and primarly focused on bison because they used it for food, skin,bones fur
-16 bison in the centre grouped and surrounded by 2 boars
-pictures of animals and no landscape/ horizontal
-paintd on natural protrusions from the rock face adding depth, had many different colours - 3Man with Bison and Rhino-lascaux caves were discovered in 1940-41 and are filled with bison, deer, horses and cattles
-Some outlined in black and others are britght earth colours, showed uncanny sense of life
-After WW2, the cave entrace was enlarged to make more tourist come, about 1200 a day
-the carbon dioxide from humans started to deform the paintings, closed on April 20, 1963
- they went back to their orginal forms right after
-A replica made called Lascaux 2 in 1983
- found on the lower level at the back of CHamber engravings
- the paintin is a confration of human and bison and a rhino fleeing on the left - 4Venus of Willendorf-24,000 to 22,000 BC, medium of limestone, size is 11.1cm, and found in Austria 1908
-believed to be a fertility idol carried by men to remind them of their mate
- Round, bulbous form indicates wealth(lots of food to eat)
-exxagerated sexuality may be emphazng child bearing
-highly detailed texture of hair but no face so they can imagine whomever they want - 5Portable Art-pebbles were seemed to be magical or sacred qualities
-have complex arrangement of dots and lines or may even represent lunar or climatic cycles
-the shape of the stone often determined the image would be
-Venus figures may be precious gifts to certain groups to keep peace - 6Stonehenge--2000, BC and in Salsibury plains, England
-Megaliths are large monuments from huge stone slabs
-need massive support to make theses
-it's an example of post and lintel construction
-more than 30 and tallest was 17 feet tall and 50 tonns
-believed to be a calender for changing of the sun, moon, stars, planets, and other astrologic phenomena
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- Geography FlashCards sobre cave paintings, criado por Navjot Nijjer em 18-11-2018.
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