MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hohle Fels, Cave Bear, Calcite
6 Oct 2016
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Mmw 11 lecture 5 film: cave of forgotten dreams. Perfectly sealed for 10"s of thousands of years. Dated back 32,000 years: oldest paintings ever discovered. Chauvet cave in honor of lead discoverer. Original entrance to cave sealed off by rock slide, preserving the cave for thousands of years. Entrance widened and locked through massive steel door. Before rock slide, entrance to the cave was illuminated by light. Red dots made with palm of hand. Paintings look so fresh authenticity challenges, but calcite layers show age: calcite forms over thousands of years. Panel of the horses: in small recess, near hole where water comes out when raining, created by single individual. Animals perhaps appeared moving/living: painting with extra legs to suggest movement. The curves/shape of the walls used by the artists to add dimension to the art. Humans never lived in the cave: painting and ceremonies, no human bones in the cage, only animals. Some overlapping figures drawn 5,000 years apart.
