FAH102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lascaux, Aurochs, Passage Grave
18 Oct 2017
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Three caves place that people returned to over time; important group rites took place here. Horses on right 25,000-24,000 bce; hands: c. 15,000 bce. Paint on limestone, height 5 ft. (1. 5m), length of horse on right 5 ft. (1. 5m). Paint on limestone, length of largest auroch (bull) 18 ft. (5. 5m). Remarkably lifelike and energetic images of cows, bulls, horses, and deer. The animals appear singly, in rows, face to face, tail to tail, and even painted on top of one another. Their most characteristic features have been emphasized; horns, eyes, and hooves are shown as seen from the front, while heads and bodies are rendered in pro le. Wall painting with horses, aurochs (ancient oxen) and rhinoceroses. Chauvet cave, vallon-pont-d"arc, ard che gorge, france. c. 32,000-30,000 bce. Paint on limestone. of geometric designs; this cave images mostly of animals, though some humans many handprints, and hundreds.
