Cave panting 35,000 years

1. What are cave paintings?
Beautiful, detailed, and colorful representations found on the inside of cave walls and ceilings Foud in western Europe, Australia, Africa, China.

2. Name several common themes found in cave paintings?
Bison, horses, deer, Tracing of human hands, Abstract patterns.

3. How were these paintings created (tools, pigments)?
Paint: Water, Plant juice, Animal blood, soil, charcoal, hematite: a form of iron oxide.
Brushes: Sticks, stones, leaves, animal hair.

4. What is the most famous cave painting site? When was it discovered and by whom?
Post an example of cave painting(s) from this cave.
Lascaux (in France) is the most famous. Discovered in 1940 by four teenage boys.

5. Why did this cave have to be closed? What was done to satisfy public curiosity?
Because the paintings were being damaged by the carbon dioxide emitted from the tourists. The french government created Lascaux 11 to satisfy the public.

6. Post an example of cave painting(s) from Altamira cave.
In Altamira cave, why do most of the paintings have a red hue?
The red clay in the soil. 

7. Who discovered this site? How old are the paintings confirmed to be?
Marceline Sanz De Sautoula and his daughter Maria. Confirmed to be 19,000 years old.

8. What is the oldest known cave painting site? When was it discovered and by whom?
Chauvet-Point Arc, it was discovered in 1994 by three speleogists. Eliette Brunell Deschamps. Christina Hillaire, Jean Marie Chauvet.

9. What was different about the painting techniques at this site?
Walls were scraped clear of to debris, and 3D effect was created by etching around edges.

10. What is "speleology"?
Scientific study of caves and karst features.

11. What three reasons do archeologists and historians believe prehistoric man created cave paintings?
   1. Tell a story, recount an event. 
   2. instructional visual aid to help teach about hunting techniques. 
   3. Magical or religious reasons that if an image of a desired event were painted it may come true.