Cave drawings

These cave drawings, found in Chauvet Cave in France, have been authenticated by C-14 dating to 30,000-28,000 B.c. It is the oldest known artwork in the world. 

Since the days of earliest man there has been a desire to represent objects and concepts in a graphical manner. Cave drawings, idols, and statues have all been used by the most primitive and the most sophisticated... 

Mercury has been used by humans since antiquity. More than 10,000 years ago, prehistoric humans used the bright red stone of mercury ore (cinnabar, mercury sulphide, HgS) to color cave drawings. Theofrastos, the disciple of Aristotle, described the production of metallic mercury from cinnabar. Egyptians and Ro-... 

Graphic technologies began with simple cave drawings and has progressed to full-motion, photorealistic, CGI motion pictures. 

There are more indirect methods to obtain information about handedness from prehistoric times. One recent study analyzed the prehistoric cave drawings of handprints, as shown in Figure 7.2, on the walls of caves in France and Spain [11]. It is presumed that that these handprints were... 

Hughes, Ted. Cave birds an alchemical cave drama. Poems by Ted Hughes, drawings by Leonard Baskin. Viking P, 1978. 

Most prehistoric shamans were concerned with using magic to help with the success of the hunt. They painted pictures on the walls of caves of the types of animals that the hunters desired. It is believed that this practice was a type of sympathetic magic, based on the idea that like attracts like. By painting a picture of a deer or a bison, the prehistoric shaman hoped to draw the actual animal to the hunter. Perhaps he or she believed that the picture captured the animal s soul and that the body would follow. 

The two non-metals, carbon and sulfur, have probably been known as long as human beings have known how to make fire. Carbon in the form of charcoal is a byproduct of fire and was used to make drawings on the walls of caves. Sulfur is found near volcanoes in the form of brimstone. It, too, was used in very early times. For example, after slaughtering Penelope s suitors, Odysseus fumigates his house by burning sulfur. 

Fig. 32. Horizontal plan of the Lambrecht cave and longitudinal and cross-sectional profiles of its series of strata. 1. black humus 2. brown humus 3. yellow Pleistocene layer 4. reddish dark brown layer 5. reddish black layer 6. lower yellow layer 7. badger dens (original drawing by Vertes).

We know this because of drawings on the walls of caves where they buried the talkers. 

The appearance of skin care formulation dates to around 3000 B.C.E. in ancient Egypt. Most concoctions were prepared from natural materials. Cleopatra is said to have bathed in donkeys milk to keep her skin smooth and supple. One naturally occurring material used by the ancients was red ochre, or iron oxide. Lumps of red ore were formed when iron oxidized or rusted. The red iron oxide was found in burial tombs in ceremonial lip tints and rouge preparations. It was also used to draw the ancient cave pictures of animals, as seen in Altimira, and is still used in many makeup formula-... 

Shield supports action zone. In this zone, the top coal near the gob edge has entered into a state of flowing and drawing of bulk materials. The special feature in this zone is that top coal, under the pressure of the caved overhung... 

It is perhaps the venerable relationship between animals and art that is most clearly indicative of the creative connections with humankind that is the zoo. Artists have rendered their feelings about animals, their intimate relations with animals and their habitats from ancient cave paintings in Niaux, France to the most contemporary interpretations (Lank, 1975). Cherfas (1984) has described the captivation by drawing attention to the caves shaped since the Pleistocene Ice Age. Here in the... 

B.c. Painted drawings in caves by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man in Europe and... 

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