An Introduction To Ancient Rock Art
Ancient art ranging from paintings to stone carvings reveal a little about the culture, behaviors, and inclinations of societies that have long disappeared. In the Stone Age, for instance, home may be a simple cave, but the artwork is no less captivating and compelling. Image source: ListVerse.com Rock paintings, as well as engravings, are some of the oldest continuously practiced art forms in the world, and they are as wide-ranging as the cultures and civilizations that are creating them. The themes can be wildly diverse, too, such as human figures, animals, intricate geometric patterns, and even weird combinations of human and animal features. They typically represent the mundane and every day in ancient people’s lives, a representation of their common realities. Spain’s El Castillo has walls with painted dots and hand stencils. In this underground cave, there are 40,800-year-old reddish creations that emerge as the oldest-known cave art. In India’s rural village...