Tuesday, August 5, 2008

cave painting....

Cave Paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings, and the term is used especially for those dating to prehistoric times. The earliest known European cave paintings date to 32,000 years ago. The purpose of the cave paintings is not known. The evidence suggests that they were not merely decorations of living areas, since the caves in which they have been found do not have signs of ongoing habitation. Also, they are often in areas of caves that are not easily accessed. Some theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while other theories ascribe them a religious or ceremonial purpose.Every cave painting have own meaning... and something part of cave painting very beauty of drawing...huhuhu...People would probably never have known where the alphabets came from. Alphabets did not just exist. It took a long time to have cave paintings formed into alphabets. The existence of alphabets must have some correlation with cave paintings thousands of years ago. Alphabets could not have developed without the influence of cave paintings. Thus, to understand where and how alphabets had formed, we ought to track back to thousands of years ago.To understand where alphabets came we have to talk about the earliest writing that people called “cave painting.” You might have wondered what cave painting is and what did ancient people wrote or painted.The pictures of animals were attempts at honoring and appeasing the spirits of the animals that the group needed to kill in the hunt. The paintings were not in letters, it consisted of paintings of various animals. Cave paintings were mostly painted on rocks or floors in narrow caves. In addition, they were created during the Palaeolithic period from 40,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C.

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