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|  | | | The Mysteries of Cave Art
The earliest discovered human works of art, Pleistocene Cave Paintings,
were created just as the last Ice Age was approaching. Three of these
cave art sites - Chauvet and Lascaux in France, and Altamira in Spain
are featured in this video. The painting techniques are remarkably
sophisticated and include perspective and the use of the contours of
the cave wall for a bas-relief effect. The subjects are mostly animals
and some of the pictures are thought to represent stories of great
hunts. Scattered among the images of various, largely extinct,
creatures are dots thought to represent stars, along with stencils of
hands. These remarkable works of Cro-Magnon humans are both instructive
and mysterious.
Age of Cave Art : The Pleistocene Age
The Artists of Cave Art - Cro Magnon humans
The Subjects of Cave_Art - Animals
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