Cave Drawings
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Ancient Cave Drawings
In prehistoric art, the term "cave painting" encompasses art involving
the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of
ancient rock shelters.
They are a variety of figurative and abstract images, mostly depicting
hunting scenes, or arrangements of animals - usually bison, horses,
reindeer, cattle, aurochs, and mammoths, although a wide variety of
other creatures were depicted, such as: lions, musk ox, wolf, fox, rabbits
otters, seals, fish, reptiles, birds and other creatures also appear.
There is no landscape painting in prehistoric art, or even any elements
of landscape, like mountains or rivers.
Images of humans appear only very rarely: even then, they are humanlike, rather than realistically human.
Sample symbols and their meanings
Task / Assignment
You will be assigned one of the following groups to create an ancient cave drawing of your assigned group.
Groups: Mississippian, Paleo, Archaic, Woodland
You need to include the following in your drawing:
• DO NOT put your civilization on your artwork
• Lots of color
• Symbols (about 10 different ones)
• Needs to tell a story or a scene from your time period
• Artifacts (about 10 different ones)
• Food Source (about 3 maybe more)
• Tools/Weapons (about 3)
• Shelter (have at least three different scenes/examples or areas)
• On the back of your artwork, tell me how your civilization connects to and impacts the next period