ART-2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lascaux, Cave In, Pech Merle
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Limited agricultural - know where things grow wild, dropping seeds where they grow. Generational from adult to grandchild - different style. Grand gallery @ lascaux about 175 ft from cave entrance. Paint animal = hope to control them and then later catch them in the fields. In some parts of lascaux - lines or bumps in rocks used to start figure = in the cave for long periods of time. Female horse head, legs are small because most meat in body not leds and head. Big stomach = pregnant, mom is today"s lunch , baby is. Bison also has small head and legs. What"s happening: man hunting, speared bison in stomach (long lines = intestine), wrong place, bison can still attack, must aim at the heart. Boys (at puberty age) taken back into the cave to learn hunting and what not to do, first classroom . Horse head matches curve of the rock, spotts on and off horses.
