Cave painting

In the eadiest known paintings, the primitive cave paintings, paint was appHed directly onto the cave wall, with tittle or no preparation. As early as the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt, however, wall surfaces were specially prepared using a coating of plaster. In time, the refinement and complexity of the preparation layers increased until in the Renaissance several layers of different composition and fineness were superimposed. Other preparations used, especially in the Far East, consisted of a clay layer. 

Paint is one of the most common and widely used materials in home and building constmction and decoration (see Building materials). Its broad use comes from its abiHty to provide not only improved appearance and decoration but also protection of a substrate to which it is appHed. Evidence of the historical uses of paint goes back over 25,000 years to cave paintings found in Europe. The Bible describes pitch being used to coat and protect Noah s Ark. Over 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, various minerals and metals such as lime, siHca, copper and iron oxides, and chalk were mixed and reacted to produce many colors. Resins from plant sap and casein were also used. Over 2000 years ago in Asia, resins refined from insect secretions and sap from trees were used to make clear lacquers and varnishes (2). 

Cavemen were already using charcoal 20 000 years ago in cave paintings. Carbon is still used for communication today in pencils and in printing ink. 

Valladas, H. (2003), Direct radiocarbon dating of prehistoric cave paintings by accelerator mass spectrometry, Meas. Sci. Technol. 14, 1487-1492. 

Organisms are completely outside the realm of physical explanation at this point for science. So what is it for Spenser and Shakespeare, quantum theory and the cave paintings at Altamira. Who are we What is history And what does it push toward Now... 

Prehistoric cave painting of a red horse from Lascaux. The colours used in the painting were obtained from the local deposits of red and yellow ochres, i. e. iron oxides. Similar ochre deposits in Southern France are still mined for pigment production today. As colouring agents, iron oxides have served man more or less continuously for over 30,000 years. A major, modern technological application of these compounds (mainly in synthetic form) is as pigment. 

B.c. cave paintings 8000 B.c. agriculture develops 6000 B.c. copper smelting 4000 B.c. copper alloys 2000 B.c. bronze... 

DMT experiences sometimes include 2-D cartoon-like characters. Often DMT entities lack depth. If DMT levels were higher in ancient humans, would this have affected their artwork For example, is there anything we can glean from the study of cave paintings and Egyptian art, which tend to lack depth ... 

Naturally occurring iron oxides and iron oxide hydroxides were used as pigments in prehistoric times (Altamira cave paintings) [3.2]. They were also used as coloring materials by the Egyptians, Greeks, and ancient Romans. 

The use of paint dates to prehistoric art, mainly about 35,000 years ago, when the long-skull Cro-Magnon people of the Paleolithic period made cave paintings. They were restricted to only a few pigments of local colors—earth tones of yellow, red, black, brown, and white—derived from plants, animals, and minerals and mixed with animal fat to make the first paints. These paints required a binder to adhere them to cave walls Chemists think that Cro-Magnon artists used saliva Today, artists are attempting to duplicate the paints used in these cave paintings. 

The cave paintings of Paleolithic man, the hieroglyphics chiseled into the crumbling antiquities of ancient Egypt, and the rune-covered artifacts of Scandinavia and Northern Europe were to preserve forever their activities and cultural heritage. Today, for the same purpose,... 

Why are the cave paintings of thousands of years old in better condition than modern papers Why do many early books printed in the 15th century show no signs of serious deterioration How can we preserve our accumulated knowledge Are the current technologies on book preservation effective Are the current practice on book preservation acceptable ... 

From the time that humanity has been capable of leaving records, monsters resulting from biological malformations appear to have been of considerable interest. In early cave paintings, for example, monsters are portrayed frequently. Recent painters have also utilized this theme by using congenitally malformed models in their work... 

Creer, K. M., Kopper, J. S., "Paleomagnetic Dating of Cave Paintings in... 

The use of animal fats by humans may well predate civilization. As the depot fats of animals are readily noticed during the butchering of a slaughtered animal, are easily harvested, and are available in the absence of plant domestication and the adoption of established agriculture, it is probable that animal fats were the hrst lipids employed as industrial and as distinct edible lipids by humans. This is evidenced by the fact that the paints used in prehistoric cave paintings were animal fat-based, as were the fuels in the lamps that illuminated the cave artists at their work. Despite a tremendous diversihcation to include other lipid types over the intervening centuries, animal fats still play a prominent role in our diets, industry, and commerce. 

Scientists determined that this cave painting at Lascanx, called Chinese Horse, was created approximately 13 000 BCE. 

Carbon black is the oldest synthetic carbon modification and is in fact one of the oldest chemical products. Carbon black was even used in the cave paintings of the Old Stone Age as a black dye. Its manufacture in the form of lamp black was, according to very early documents, known to the Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Chinese cultures. 

One of the earliest uses of pigment can be seen in the cave paintings of the... 

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