ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Kuahuqiao Site, Sole Markings
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Both animals they hunted and other animals. Women are life like but male are not life like. Artwork overlaps and sometimes found in odd locations. Only you would know where the art work is, because its not necessarily drawn to be shown to everyone. There are many hypotheses about these art work. The rhino with bleeding noes shows that it is a death scene, you can interpret it as a. Is there a spiritual symbol or message in the drawings? metaphor for death taking place. The gabaillou cave with the bison rising from hole in wall can be interpreted as the animal emerging from the hole, earth, wall. These two pictures show death and birth, showing the spirituality of life. We try to understand past societies by finding an analog in our modern society. Painting was not about everyday life but about spiritual life.
