Monday, February 13, 2012

cave paintings 35,000 years ago

What are cave paintings?
- colorful representations found on the inside of caves


Name several common themes found in cave paintings?
-large animals,tracings of human hands


How were these paintings created (tools, pigments)?
-water,plant juice , animal blood, soil charchol


What is the most famous cave painting site? When was it discovered and by whom?


-Lascaux  france 1940, 4 teenage boys found it accidentallyPost an example of cave painting(s) from this cave.

Why did this cave have to be closed? What was done to satisfy public curiosity?
-paintings ere being damaged by carbon monoxide they made lascaux 2


Post an example of cave painting(s) from Altamira cave.
In Altamira cave, why do most of the paintings have a red hue?
-red clay
Who discovered this site? How old are the paintings confirmed to be?
-Marceline Sanz De Sautuola, 19,000 years old
What is the oldest known cave painting site? When was it discovered and by whom?

-Chauvet-point Arc, eliette Brunell Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, Jean_Marie ChauvetPost an example of cave painting(s) from this cave.

What was different about the painting techniques at this site?
-walls were scraped free of debris to make the walls smoother
What is "speleology"?
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What three reasons do archeologists and historians believe prehistoric man created cave paintings?

-teach to hunt
-recount a event that already happened
-if it was on the walls it might come true

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