2. Cave painting
involves the
application of colour
pigments on the
walls, floors or
ceilings of
prehistoric rock
shelters and caves.
Cave paintings are monochrome,
made with only one colour
(usually black) or polychrome
consisting of two or more
colours.
Chauvet Cave, France
Altamira, Cantabria, Spain.
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3. The development of cave
art coincided with the
displacement of
Neanderthal man by
Homo Sapiens Sapiens,
starting around 40,000
BC.
At least two hundred painted
caves have been found
throughout the Pyrenees regions
of southern France and northern
Spain.
Lascaux, France.
Cosquer Cave, France.
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4. The paintings primarily
depict animals but also
include occasional
human forms, a variety of
non-representational
symbols, human
handprints, and
engravings.
Pech Merle, France.
Cueva del Castillo, Cantabria, Spain.
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5. PREHISTORIC PIGMENTS
Prehistoric painters used the
pigments available in the
vicinity. These pigments
were the so-called earth
pigments, (minerals
limonite and hematite, red
ochre, yellow ochre and
umber), charcoal from the
fire (carbon black), burnt
bones (bone black) and
white from grounded calcite
(lime white).
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7. ALTAMIRA
The cave is approximately 1000 meters
long. Around 13,000 years ago a rockfall
sealed the cave's entrance, preserving
its contents until its discovery in 1879.
Bison, horses, deer, hands,
and mysterious signs were
painted or engraved over the
9,000 years during which the
cave of Altamira was
inhabited (22,000- 13,000
years ago). These
representations extend for a
length of more than 270
metres throughout the cave
although the best known are
the famous polychrome
paintings.
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8. They used the natural
contours of the cave
walls to give their
subjects a three-
dimensional effect.
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10. LASCAUX.
The cave contains nearly 2,000
figures, which can be grouped
into three main categories:
animals, human figures, and
abstract signs. The paintings
contain no images of the
surrounding landscape or the
vegetation of the time.
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11. Most of the major images have
been painted using red, yellow,
and black colours from mineral
pigments, including iron oxide
(ochre) and haematite for red
colour, goethite for yellow colour,
as well as manganese-containing
pigments. Charcoal may also have
been used for black colour. The
colour may have been applied
using animal fat.
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13. Cavalls de
Valltorta,
Castellón
• Abrigos y paredes rocas al aire
libre.
• La figura humana es
protagonista.
• Predominio de las escenas
combinadas de humanos y
animales con contenido
narrativo.
• Progresiva tendencia al
esquematismo.
• Domina la monocromía, sobre
todo del rojo y el negro.
14. Cuenva Remigia,
Castellón
• Las vestimentas de las figuras
humanas apuntan a un clima
más cálido que en la época del
Paleolítico y las pinturas
rupestres.
• En cuanto a los animales
aparecen muchas cabras, toros y
ciervos.
• Los varones aparecen en roles
de cazadores y las mujeres en
escenas religiosas y agrícolas.
15. Roca de los
Moros, El Cogul,
Lérida.
• También temenos escenas de
cultos, sacrificios u ofrendas
como en esta danza ritual.
• En la vestimenta femenina se
repiten las faldas acampanadas y
complementos de decoración
como cintas, diademas o
plumas.
23. Cueva de Bacinete,
Los Barrios, Cádiz.
• Esquematismo y nivel de abstracción que hace a veces muy dificil su
interpretación.
• Figura humana representada, en su mayor parte, con brazos y piernas
en arco, con cabeza, tronco y sexo.
• Figuras y símbolos solares y estelares.
• Escenas de caza representadas con escasos trazos.
• Representaciones religiosas con ídolos oculados.
24. Tajo de las Figuras, Benalup-
Casas Viejas, Cádiz.
25. ÍDOLOS PLACA E
ÍDOLO OCULADOS:
EDAD DEL COBRE
• Los ídolos placa están frecuentemente asociados a construcciones
megalíticas así que tendrían una relación con el mundo funerario.
• Los ídolos oculados se podrían asociar a divinidades funerarias,
referencias familiares o territoriales.