I've been reading into Cave Paintings and I can't even explain how interested I am! Cave Paintings date all the way back to over 32,000 years ago. Unfortunately we don't know the purpose of the cave paintings. I believe they were made to educate themselves and for future references. The way I think about it is why do we draw pictures? Why do we write down what we have on our mind, for example blogging. The most common paintings are along the lines of large animals such as bison, horses, and even deer. This shows us the evolution of animals over the change of time. When you look at cave paintings you can learn a lot more than just the evolution of animals. You can learn about our past as humans. This includes how we survived in the past, and adapted to our environments. There's so much more to learn about cave paintings and if you are interested in learning more you can click the link below!
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cave.html
How interesting to see how we have evolved since those early cave paintings! I also think that those civilizations that used cave painting to record their important information were pretty evolved. They were thinking into the future about how to let others know about them after they're gone. We've got books and blogs and thousands of other ways to do that in present day.
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