Cave Art
The oldest pictures. Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira, El Castillo and the Sulawesi hand stencils, ochre and charcoal and blown pigment, the dating arguments, and the replica caves built because human breath was destroying the originals.
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26 moments in this segment.
- - Reproductions of cave paintings in the Altamira Cave, Spain, from the Illustrated London N. Title: Reproductions of cave paintings in the Altamira Cave, Spain, from the Illustrated London News, Aug. 17, 1912 Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Physical description.
- - Lascaux: Cradle of Man's Art (1952). An early documentary filmed when Lascaux was still open, twelve years after its discovery.
- - Panel of simple figures with boomerangs - Google Art Project. Photograph showing panel of simple figures with boomerangs - google art project.
- - Altamira, bison, museum. Bison from the model of the ceiling of Altamira, in the Brno museum Anthropos. Modern photograph of an ancient site.
- - Altamira, bison, museum 02. Bison from the model of the ceiling of Altamira, in the Brno museum Anthropos. Modern photograph of an ancient site.
- - Cave paintings at Ana Kai Tangata
- - Werner Herzog on Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The director on filming inside Chauvet, one of the few outsiders granted access to the sealed cave.
- - Altamira and the Palaeolithic cave art of northern Spain. UNESCO on the seventeen decorated caves inscribed alongside Altamira, listed in 1985.
- - Europe's oldest known cave paintings. Brian Cox visits the earliest dated painted caves in Europe for Human Universe.
- - Preserving the prehistoric art of Chauvet. The Ardeche cave holds some of the oldest known drawings and has been sealed since its discovery to protect them.
- - Apex of Tabon Cave. I am not allowed to describe what it is as it may be original research.
- - Pictogramas mosquera. Pictograms drawn by the Muisca people possibly between IV & XVI, despite being covered by black aerosol, you can still see their shapes and symbols.
- - Jumalniemen oletettu kalliomaalaus Kotka. This is a photo of a monument in Finland identified by the ID 'Q11867906' (Q11867906).
- - Cave art 101. Who made Palaeolithic cave art, where it survives, and the competing arguments about what it was for.
- - The discovery of Lascaux. Prehistorian Thierry Felix tells how four boys found the painted cave in the Dordogne in September 1940.
- - Virtual tour inside Chauvet Cave. Google Arts and Culture walkthrough of the Ardeche gorge cave, narrated by Daisy Ridley, showing paintings made 36,000 years ago.
- - Chauvet Cave: Masterworks of the Palaeolithic. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology lecture with Jean-Michel Geneste, curator responsible for the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave, on its 36,000-year-old paintings.
- - The oldest cave art found in Sulawesi. Griffith University announces a painted pig dated to at least 45,500 years ago in an Indonesian cave.
- - The world's oldest animal cave painting. BBC News on the Sulawesi panel of wild pigs and the uranium-series dating behind the claim.
- - Cave Painting, Maligrad Island. An old cave painting located in Maligrad Island during the pre-medieval time.
- - What can cave paintings tell us about our ancestors?. BBC Earth on how prehistoric images are read as evidence of belief, memory and social life.
- - Chauvet: unlocking France's prehistoric past. France 24 marks thirty years since three explorers found the cave often called the Sistine Chapel of prehistory.
- - Replicating Lascaux. The facsimile programme built to let visitors see the paintings while the original stays sealed against microbial damage.
- - Chiremba Balancing Rocks - Harare3514. Prehistoric rock paintings depicting human and animal figures on a sandstone surface at Chiremba Balancing Rocks.
- - Altamira and the controversy that rewrote history. How the Cantabrian cave's paintings were dismissed as forgery for decades before being accepted as Palaeolithic.
- - Hand stencils in Sulawesi may be the oldest cave art. Euronews on claims that stencil paintings in an Indonesian cave date to about 67,800 years ago.