#cavepaintings — Public Fediverse posts

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I've been watching a lot of #Nebula (highly recommended) of late as I'm feeding the child or expressing milk, and some of that time was spent watching a variety of rock art and #CavePainting documentaries.

I found the #handprint cave paintings particularly moving, so I traced baby Lilith's hands onto cardboard, got some spray paints, and decorated an otherwise dull nursing top.

I love how it turned out. ❤️

#clothing #CavePaintings #RockArt #prehistoric #art #textiles #TextileArt #prehistory

Thanks for joining me for this edition of Afternoon Art Critic.
May it echo across time… even half as well as those paintings did.

#AfternoonArtCritic #PrehistoricArt #CavePaintings #GuardianLongRead #EshuElegbaraWasHere

Grotte de Font-de-Gaum in Les Eyzies, France

Among Europe’s most spectacular Ice Age painted caves still accessible today.#caves #cavepaintings #prehistoric #section-Atlas
Grotte de Font-de-Gaum

Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa

A million years ago, our ancient ancestors were cooking with fire in this cave.#cavepaintings #caves #fires #fire #archaeology #ancienttechnology #inventingtheworldinternal #section-Atlas
Wonderwerk Cave

Over time, grooves have formed in the rock that look like works of art, and that is exactly what they are: nature's own art. Nature photography Lappeenranta Finland. https://www.kuvaajankulma.com/valokuvaaja

#HistoryInStone #AncientHistory #RockArt #CavePaintings #CulturalHeritage #HistoricalArtifact #AncientArt #Petroglyphs #StoneCarvings #Archaeology#photography #photographer #naturephotography

https://blogmagazine2025.blogspot.com/2025/05/mysterious-discovery-ancient-cave.html
#ancient #cave #history #Egyptian #cavepaintings #painting

Ancient Art of Tassili n’Ajjer: 12,000-Year-Old Window into Sahara’s Past

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/04/20/ancient-art-of-tassili-najjer-12000-year-old-window-into-saharas-past/

12 Astounding #Facts about the #LascauxCavePaintings

The astonishing #cavepaintings were discovered by accident in 1940 and offer a tantalizing glimpse into #prehistory.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/lascaux-cave-paintings-facts

Man Destroys a Cave Painting for a Facebook Photo https://petapixel.com/2024/08/09/man-destroys-a-cave-painting-for-a-facebook-photo/ #cavepaintings #socialmedia #vandalism #spain #News

Through layers of history, we uncover the universal language of our ancestors, https://fineartamerica.com/featured/healing-hands-a-vintage-modern-fresco-olena-art.html etched in the handprints and hieroglyphs of their artistic legacy. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lena-owens?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=602875
Healing Hands A Vintage Modern Fresco
https://www.elephantstock.com/products/healing-hands-fresco-vertical-by-olena?frame-color=black&frame-type=floating&layout=framed-canvas&esaid=ree4w3
showcasing textured backgrounds
artwork #handprints #hieroglyphs #vintage #fresco #prehistoricart #cavepaintings #ancientsymbols #logos #grayspiral #conchshell #ancientsymbology #earlyhumanartforms #mixedmedia #artisticlegacy

Through layers of history, we uncover the universal language of our ancestors, https://fineartamerica.com/featured/healing-hands-a-vintage-modern-fresco-olena-art.html etched in the handprints and hieroglyphs of their artistic legacy. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lena-owens?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=602875
Healing Hands A Vintage Modern Fresco
https://www.elephantstock.com/products/healing-hands-fresco-vertical-by-olena?frame-color=black&frame-type=floating&layout=framed-canvas&esaid=ree4w3
showcasing textured backgrounds
artwork #handprints #hieroglyphs #vintage #fresco #prehistoricart #cavepaintings #ancientsymbols #logos #grayspiral #conchshell #ancientsymbology #earlyhumanartforms #mixedmedia #artisticlegacy

Through layers of history, we uncover the universal language of our ancestors, https://fineartamerica.com/featured/healing-hands-a-vintage-modern-fresco-olena-art.html etched in the handprints and hieroglyphs of their artistic legacy. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lena-owens?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=602875
Healing Hands A Vintage Modern Fresco
https://www.elephantstock.com/products/healing-hands-fresco-vertical-by-olena?frame-color=black&frame-type=floating&layout=framed-canvas&esaid=ree4w3
showcasing textured backgrounds
artwork #handprints #hieroglyphs #vintage #fresco #prehistoricart #cavepaintings #ancientsymbols #logos #grayspiral #conchshell #ancientsymbology #earlyhumanartforms #mixedmedia #artisticlegacy

Through layers of history, we uncover the universal language of our ancestors, https://fineartamerica.com/featured/healing-hands-a-vintage-modern-fresco-olena-art.html etched in the handprints and hieroglyphs of their artistic legacy. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lena-owens?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=602875
Healing Hands A Vintage Modern Fresco
https://www.elephantstock.com/products/healing-hands-fresco-vertical-by-olena?frame-color=black&frame-type=floating&layout=framed-canvas&esaid=ree4w3
showcasing textured backgrounds
artwork #handprints #hieroglyphs #vintage #fresco #prehistoricart #cavepaintings #ancientsymbols #logos #grayspiral #conchshell #ancientsymbology #earlyhumanartforms #mixedmedia #artisticlegacy

La Sarga Cave Paintings in Alcoy, Spain

These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.#history #archaeology #neolithic #cavepaintings #caves #section-Atlas
La Sarga Cave Paintings

Brilliantly visualised @Nature essay by @dyanilewis, photography by Ulet Ifansasti, on the stunning 45,000 year-old #CavePaintings in #Sulawesi, Indonesia - now threatened by dissolution and irretrievable loss:

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-03818-5/index.html

Truely stunning 🤩

https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/take-a-virtual-tour-of-the-lascaux-cave-paintings.html

#CavePaintings #AncientArt #CaveArt #History #Lascaux #Prehistoric

Bingling Temple in Tianshui, China

A hidden Buddhist gem accessible only by boat.#history&culture #history #archaeology #boats #rocks #clay #statues #fresco #cavepaintings #caves #ancient #temples #buddha #buddhism #section-Atlas
Bingling Temple

The oldest known Neanderthal art found after 57,000 years sealed in a cave
#art #evolution #cavepaintings
https://bgr.com/science/the-oldest-known-neanderthal-art-found-after-57000-years-sealed-in-a-cave/

57,000-year-old Neanderthal wall art uncovered in France | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthals-oldest-cave-engravings-france-b2362012.html

#CavePaintings
#Neanderthal
#France
#LaRocheCotard
#CentreValDeLoire
#Loire
#PlosOne
#FingerPainting
#FingerFlutings
#Marquet
#Symbolic
#SocialBehaviours

“Smoke archaeology” reveals early humans were visiting Nerja Caves 41,000 years ago - Enlarge / María Medina of the University of Cordoba working in the Nava... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1937907 #paleolithiccaveart #smokearchaeology #gaming&culture #cavepaintings #anthropology #archaeology #prehistory #nerjacave #science

Cave paintings in the mountains in southern Arizona. Location secret.

#CavePaintings #AncientArt #Arizona #TohonoOodham

What a fascinating article, I can’t wait to read more as research rolls out!
I notice that in the picture example they all seems to be left hands, I wonder if that’s common worldwide or unique to this cave?

https://archive.ph/2023.03.22-120208/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734300-900-cave-paintings-of-mutilated-hands-could-be-a-stone-age-sign-language/

#PreHistoricArt #CavePaintings #HandPrints #Language

What a fascinating article, I can’t wait to read more as research rolls out!
I notice that in the picture example they all seems to be left hands, I wonder if that’s common worldwide or unique to this cave?

https://archive.ph/2023.03.22-120208/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734300-900-cave-paintings-of-mutilated-hands-could-be-a-stone-age-sign-language/

#PreHistoricArt #CavePaintings #HandPrints #Language

What a fascinating article, I can’t wait to read more as research rolls out!
I notice that in the picture example they all seems to be left hands, I wonder if that’s common worldwide or unique to this cave?

https://archive.ph/2023.03.22-120208/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734300-900-cave-paintings-of-mutilated-hands-could-be-a-stone-age-sign-language/

#PreHistoricArt #CavePaintings #HandPrints #Language

What a fascinating article, I can’t wait to read more as research rolls out!
I notice that in the picture example they all seems to be left hands, I wonder if that’s common worldwide or unique to this cave?

https://archive.ph/2023.03.22-120208/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734300-900-cave-paintings-of-mutilated-hands-could-be-a-stone-age-sign-language/

#PreHistoricArt #CavePaintings #HandPrints #Language

What a fascinating article, I can’t wait to read more as research rolls out!
I notice that in the picture example they all seems to be left hands, I wonder if that’s common worldwide or unique to this cave?

https://archive.ph/2023.03.22-120208/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734300-900-cave-paintings-of-mutilated-hands-could-be-a-stone-age-sign-language/

#PreHistoricArt #CavePaintings #HandPrints #Language

Really cool study of #CavePaintings. The markings may signify the lunar months when the depicted species tend to give birth. If so, this is the earliest known writing. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000415

#Prehistoric hunter-gatherers kept time of a sort. And the person who decoded the #cavePaintings and made the discovery isn't even an academic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799

Fascinating story of the discovery of a #calendar system linked to local #ecology in #IceAge #cavepaintings.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/05/amateur-archaeologist-uncovers-ice-age-writing-system

#history #histodons #envhist

Great example of #CitizenScience.

"A London furniture conservator [Ben Bacon] has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why Ice Age hunter-gatherers drew cave paintings."

#CavePaintings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799

“A London furniture conservator has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why #IceAge hunter-gatherers drew #CavePaintings ” 20,000 years ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799

The study ( #OpenAccess ): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000415

#archaeology #prehistory #HistoryOfWriting #writing #communication #PublicHumanities

WoW Oh Wow!! - #Archaelogy #CavePaintings #Calender

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA