Wednesday, September 1, 2010

How did early humans use art to express their prehistoric culture?

In  humanities we were studying about our artifacts that we found in our scavenger hunt. And my group had to do study about a painting from the early hominids. I'm wondering what these cave paintings could actually mean.

This one of the cave paintings found in France.
Maybe the mythical and spiritual stories that they told or heard through their life were what inspired them to teach to their young by painting them on the walls. Then when the younger members grow older and have children of their own they could tell it to them. I think the reason why the hominids painted the story on the wall is because then they can remember it and the story can just be passed down to their yong ones.


Perhaps they could have told about what they saw happening to the world surrounding them. It could be that a deer was born and each day the hominids saw it growing and in time becoming the leader of it's group. It seems liklely that the paintings on the wall are about their daily observations.

Lastly, maybe the painting could be like a diary that everybody shared and they painted what they did on a certain day. Perhaps they went hunting and killed a ferocious bison or a huge elephant or a stampeding rhino or perhaps they found a new river or another tribe.
FIRE EXIT!!


There could be many reasons why they painted pictures on cave walls. We may never find out what made them do it.                                   

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