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This is still being discussed among experts. The simplest answer is: hunting magic. By painting an animal the painter could get a kind of power over it to be used in hunting it.
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What are the famous cave paintings?
Australian Aborigines still produce cave paintings.
How did prehistoric resources affect cave painting?
The availability of different colored stones allowed the Prehistoric people to create different colors in their cave paintings. Animals were the subject of many of the paintings.
What type of paintings is rare in prehistoric cave art discoveries?
In Europe there are such paintings in some French caves (e.g. Lascaux), in Spain Altamira Cave, in Russia in the Ural mountain caves.
Who was the first person to start painting?
The most likely would be the cave paintings at Lascaux, France.
What are rupestrian paintings?
Rupestrian means inscribed in rock. A fancy term for the rock and cave paintings and carvings left by early civilizations.
How do the cave paintings in Africa compare to cave paintings in other parts of the world?
They are both cave paintings
What was produced by prehistoric artists?
cave paintings...
Sculptures and cave paintings were a development of which period?
Sculptures and cave paintings were a development of Paleolithic period.
Which is oldest chauvet cave paintings Lascaux cave paintings or Venus of willendorf?
The Venus of Willendorf is a figurine made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE. The cave paintings of Lascaux are 17,000 years BP or before present time.
Where were cave paintings found?
The well known cave paintings are in Lascaux, France.
The Fayum mummy portraits the Great Pyramid of Giza the Lascaux cave paintings the Altamira cave paintings which is the oldest?
the Altamira cave painting
What are the famous cave paintings?
Australian Aborigines still produce cave paintings.
What are the .Lascaux cave?
The lascaux cave is a cave in France that has animal paintings from a long time ago on the walls, and that is why it is famous.
Are there cave paintings of aliens?
From Australia.
Where were cave paintings invented?
In caves.
Where are the Utah cave paintings?
Utah
What theories do archaeologists have about why these cave paintings were made in the lascaux cave?
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