Palaeolithic cave art
Mind map drawing together various theories for cave art as well as some good example sites.
- Created by: Canar
- Created on: 04-02-16 11:42
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- Palaeolithic cave art
- Lascaux-France
- 17,500 years old-discovered 1940.
- Dated using C14 dating on remains of charcoal used on walls
- Ochre used to make red and yellow paints, manganese dioxide for black-determined by chemical residue analysis.
- Rock shapes used to create 3D effect
- Animal fat lamps used-flickering effect for movement illusion.
- Nearly 2,000 figures painted.
- Animals, human figures and abstract signs.
- 900 identifiable animals
- 364 paintings of equines. 90 of stags.
- Cattle and bison also represented (4-5% of paintings each)
- 364 paintings of equines. 90 of stags.
- Geometric symbols
- Art for art's sake? Or perhaps these represent symbols drawn whilst artist was in a drug induced state?
- 900 identifiable animals
- Nothing of vegetation o landscape of the time
- Animals, human figures and abstract signs.
- Hall of the Bulls
- 36 animals represented. one .2 metres long-longest animal in cave art-depicted in motion
- Animal fat lamps used-flickering effect for movement illusion.
- 36 animals represented. one .2 metres long-longest animal in cave art-depicted in motion
- Rouffingnac
- Flint nodule used as mammoth eye
- Enlene
- Possible idea of hunting magic.
- Animal teeth placed in cracks in cave wall-magical rite?
- Engraved sandstone plaque-human figures-various interpretations
- Other finds include rondelle disc-bison on one side, geometric shape on the other.
- Theories of puropse
- Symbolic hunting magic
- Images painted during shamanistic trance
- Abstract art?
- Entopic purposes.-Signs 'hard-wired into brain'-come out when using drugs-proposed by Lewis-Williams and Dowson 1988
- Abstract art?
- Ownership
- Tribe symbols of a certain animal
- Ceremonial center/temple
- Hall of Bulls at Lascaux
- Salon Noir at Niaux
- Have passages leading to them
- Hall of Bulls at Lascaux
- Ritual journey-some evidence of votive offerings being left.
- Have passages leading to them
- Gargas cave-mutilated hands
- Rites of passage
- Rites of passage
- shaminism
- Images painted during shamanistic trance
- Abstract art?
- Entopic purposes.-Signs 'hard-wired into brain'-come out when using drugs-proposed by Lewis-Williams and Dowson 1988
- Abstract art?
- Lord of the animals from Les Trois Freres-combines human and animal. Upright with antlers etc.
- Images painted during shamanistic trance
- Representing caves as wombs
- Pergouset cave has depictions of vulvas
- Also useful site for other theories. 'Monsters' at end of cave-trance paintings.
- 130m long passage that have to drag yourself along-passage.
- 90cm high headless man
- Fish and other wildlife
- Private art-horse painted in corner which can't get head into-meant only for 'spirits' to see?
- Also useful site for other theories. 'Monsters' at end of cave-trance paintings.
- Pergouset cave has depictions of vulvas
- Communication systems-tells tribes where best hunting grounds are etc.
- Can compare with modern examples.
- Died out around 9,600BC.
- Lascaux-France
- Distinguish between male and female roles
- Venus figures of women at Gonnersdorf?
- Theories of puropse
- Symbolic hunting magic
- Ownership
- Tribe symbols of a certain animal
- Ceremonial center/temple
- Salon Noir at Niaux
- Have passages leading to them
- Ritual journey-some evidence of votive offerings being left.
- Have passages leading to them
- Gargas cave-mutilated hands
- Salon Noir at Niaux
- shaminism
- Lord of the animals from Les Trois Freres-combines human and animal. Upright with antlers etc.
- Representing caves as wombs
- Pergouset cave has depictions of vulvas
- Also useful site for other theories. 'Monsters' at end of cave-trance paintings.
- 130m long passage that have to drag yourself along-passage.
- 90cm high headless man
- Fish and other wildlife
- Private art-horse painted in corner which can't get head into-meant only for 'spirits' to see?
- Also useful site for other theories. 'Monsters' at end of cave-trance paintings.
- Pergouset cave has depictions of vulvas
- Communication systems-tells tribes where best hunting grounds are etc.
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