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The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [2]
Drawings of humans were rare and are usually schematic as opposed to the more detailed and naturalistic images of animal subjects. Kieran D. O'Hara, geologist, suggests in his book Cave Art and Climate Change that climate controlled the themes depicted. [29] Pigments used include red and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal.
Charcoal was often a key component of cave painting, with examples dating back to at least 28,000 years ago. [ 11 ] One of the oldest charcoal paintings is a picture of a zebra, found at the Apollo cave in Namibia .
The earliest rock art at the site was created around 7,300 BC. [4] Cueva de las Manos is the only site in the region with rock art of this age, categorized as the A1 and A2 styles of the cave, but after 6,800 BC similar art, particularly hunting scenes of styles A3, A4, and A5, was created at other sites in the region. [27]
Art of the European Upper Paleolithic includes rock and cave painting, jewelry, [12] [13] drawing, carving, engraving and sculpture in clay, bone, antler, [14] stone [15] and ivory, such as the Venus figurines, and musical instruments such as flutes. Decoration was also made on functional tools, such as spear throwers, perforated batons and lamps.
The drawings in the Art Gallery are representations of animals, done in black and likely with charcoal. Some of the animals depicted include bison, bears, and rhinoceros, while the subject of other drawings remains unknown. The images are on both walls of the cave and do not appear to have any type of symmetrical pattern. [6]
It contains hand stencils, charcoal drawings, and approximately 100 polychrome paintings of horses and other animals. Pech Merle Cave, Cabrerets, Midi-Pyrénées, France — Discovered in 1922 and dating from 25,000 B.C., Pech-Merle is famous for its dappled horses drawn in charcoal and painted with ochre on limestone. For details and ...
Cave art. Chufin cave (Spain) – small cave with engravings, stick figures, and artwork schematically portraying red deer, goats and cattle. Côa Valley (Portugal) – artists engraved thousands of drawings of horses and other animal, human and abstract figures in open-air artwork completed 22,000 to 10,000 years ago.