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Rock art
The document discusses different forms of rock art including pictographs, petroglyphs, and earth figures. Pictographs are painted designs made using minerals like red ochre, charcoal, or white chalk. Petroglyphs are carved designs made using hammerstones. Earth figures are large motifs made on the ground by scraping away pebbles or piling up rocks. Rock art was used to mark territory, record histories, or in rituals. Cave art includes painted drawings on cave walls, often of hands or animals. The oldest dated rock art is in Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Australia, ranging from 28,000 to 40,000 years old.
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Rock art
- 1. ROCK ARTBY: MISSLOVE JOY L. AMARGO
- 2. WHAT IS AROCK ART? a form of landscape art, and includes designs that have been placed on boulder and cliff faces, cave walls and ceilings, and on the ground surface.
- 3. VARIOUS FORMS OFROCK ART • pictographs, which were painted or drawn onto the panel (rock surface), • petroglyphs, which were carved or engraved onto the panel, • earth figures such as earthforms, intaglios and geoglyphs. • Some archaeologists also consider pits and grooves in the rock, known as cups, rings or cupules, as a form of rock art
- 4. Pictographs • made withmineral earths and other natural compounds found across much of the world. • The predominantly used colours are red, black and white. • Red paint is usually attained through the use of ground ochre, • black paint is typically composed ofcharcoal, or sometimes from minerals such as manganese. • White paint is usually created from natural chalk, kaolinite clay or diatomaceous earth.
- 5. HOW PICTOGRAPHS WEREFORM? they would be ground and mixed with a liquid, such as water, blood, urine, or egg yolk, and then applied to the stone as paint using a brush, fingers, or a stamp. Alternately, the pigment could have been applied on dry, such as with a stick of charcoal.]
- 6. HAND PRINT ASONE UNUSUAL FORM OF PICTOGRAPH • One unusual form of pictograph, found in many, although not all rock-art producing cultures, is the hand print. • There are three forms of this; the first involves covering the hand in wet paint and then applying it to the rock. • The second involves a design being painted onto the hand, which is then in turn added to the surface. • The third involves the hand first being placed against the panel, with dry paint then being blown onto it through a tube, in a process that is akin to air-brush or spray-painting. The resulting image is a negative print of the hand, and is sometimes described as a "stencil" in Australian archaeology.
- 7. Petroglyphs Petroglyphs areengravings or carvings into the rock panel. They are created with the use of a hard hammerstone, which is battered against the stone surface. In certain societies, the choice of hammerstone itself has religious significance.In other instances, the rock art is pecked out through indirect percussion, as a second rock is used like a chisel between the hammerstone and the panel. A third, rarer form of engraving rock art was through incision, or scratching, into the surface of the stone with a lithic flake or metal blade. The motifs produced using this technique are fine-lined and often difficult to see.
- 8. Earth Figures Earthfigures are large designs and motifs that are created on the stone ground surface. They can be classified through their method of manufacture. Intaglios are created by scraping away the desert pavements (pebbles covering the ground) to reveal a negative image on the bedrock below. The best known example of such intaglio rock art is the Nazca Lines of Peru. In contrast, geoglyphs are positive images, which are created by piling up rocks on the ground surface to resulting in a visible motif or design.
- 9. Interpretation and Use to mark territory, to record historical events or stories or to help enact rituals. to depict real events apparently entirely abstract
- 10. EXAMPLES OF ROCKART Petroglyph att ributed to Classic Vernal Style, Fremont archaeologica l culture, eastern Utah, USA.
- 11. EXAMPLES OF ROCKART Modern rock relief of Decebalus, king of the Dacians
- 12. EXAMPLES OF ROCKART Reclining Buddha at Gal Vihara, Sri Lanka. The remains of the image house that originally enclosed it can be seen.
- 13. EXAMPLES OF ROCKART Buddhist st one carvings at Ili River, Kazakhstan
- 14. EXAMPLES OF ROCKART Pictograph, southeastern Ut ah(USA), attributed toBasketmaker, Ancient Puebloan cultur e.
- 15. AFRICAN ROCK ART Female figureat the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range.
- 16. AFRICAN ROCK ART Long-horned cattleand other rock art in the Laas Geel complex.
- 17. AFRICAN ROCK ART Rock paintings fromthe Western Cape
- 18. AMERICAN ROCK ART Nanabozhopi ctograph, Mazinaw Rock, Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
- 19. AMERICAN ROCK ART Native Americanrock painting close to Douglas, Wyomin g, USA. One possible interpretation of this painting is: On the left side a group of United States Army soldiers with different insignia and on the right side Native Americans are shown
- 20. INDIAN ROCK ART Bhimbetkaro ck painting of India,Worl d Heritage Site.
- 21. ASIAN ROCK ART 'GreatKing' neolithic paintings above Malipo in Wenshan Prefecture,Yunn an Province, China . Thought to be over 4000 years old.
- 22. AUSTRALIAN ART Bradshaw rock paintings in the Kimberley regionof Western Australia
- 23. AUSTRALIAN ART Aboriginal rock paintingof Mim ispirits in the Anbangbang gallery atNourlangie Rock in Kakadu National Park.
- 24. EUROPE’S OLDEST ROCKART The oldest known example is the Chauvet Cave in France, although others have been located, including Lascaux in France, Alta Mira in Spain and Creswell Crags in Britain.
- 25. AMERICA’S OLDEST ROCKART The oldest reliably dated rock art in the Americas is known as the "Horny Little Man." It is petroglyph depicting a stick figure with an oversized phallus and carved inLapa do Santo, a cave in central-eastern Brazil
- 26. AUSTRALIA’S OLDEST ROCKART The oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date.
- 27. Nawarla Gabarnmangis considered to have one of the most extensive collections of rock art in the world and predates both Lascaux and Chauvet cave art, the earliest known art in Europe by at least 10,000 years
- 28. AFRICA’S OLDEST ROCKART The APOLLO 11 stones were thought t be the oldest known artwork of any kind from the African continent.
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- 30. CAVE ART painteddrawings on cave walls or ceilings
- 31. INTERPRETATION AND USE .were not merely decorations of living areas since the caves in which they have been found do not have signs of ongoing habitation. They are also often located in areas of caves that are not easily accessible. Some theories hold that cave paintings may have been a way of communicating with others, while other theories ascribe a religious or ceremonial purpose to them. The paintings are remarkably similar around the world, with animals being common subjects that give the most impressive images. Humans mainly appear as images of hands, mostly hand stencils made by blowing pigment on a hand held to the wall.
- 32. SUBJECT,THEMES AND PATTERNS The most common subjects in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison,horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called finger flutings
- 33. OLDEST CAVE ART EL CASTILLO CAVE PREHISTORIC DOTS AND CRIMSON HAND STENCILSON SPANISH CAVE WALLS. MADE BY THE NEANDERTHALS.
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- 35. Cueva de las Manos(Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina
- 36. Rock paintings from theCave of Beasts (Gilf Kebir, SW Egypt Libyan Desert).
- 37. San rock paintings f rom theWester n Cape in So uth Africa.
- 38. Cave paintings at the Laas Geelcomple xin northern So malia
- 39. Cave painting at theTassili n'Ajjer UNESCO World Heritage Site in southeast Algeria.
- 40. 30,000-year- old cave hyenapainting found in theChauvet Cave, France
- 41. Polychrom e cave painting of awolf, Font-de- Gaume, France
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- 44. Gua Tewet, the treeof life, Borneo, Indonesia.
- 45. SHORT QUIZ 1. aform of landscape art, and includes designs that have been placed on boulder and cliff faces, cave walls and ceilings, and on the ground surface. 2-4 3 various forms of rock art 5-7 predominantly used colors in rock art 8.created by scraping away the desert pavements (pebbles covering the ground) to reveal a negative image on the bedrock below. 9-13 5 use and interpretations of rock art 14. painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings
- 46. 15. made byblowing pigment on a hand held to the wall. 16-18 three major themes and subject in cave art 19-22 oldest rock art in America. Africa, Australia and Europe 23-25 (3 points) oldest cave art, where we can find it and who made it?
- 47. 1.Rock art 2.Petroglyps 3.Pictographs 4.Earth figures 5.Black 6.Red 7.White 8.Intaglio 9.tomark territory, 10. to record historical events or stories KEY ANSWER
- 48. 11. or tohelp enact rituals. 12. to depict real events 13. apparently entirely abstract 14. Cave art 15. Hand stencils 16.Large wild animals 17.Tracings of human hands 18 abstract pattern 19.Chauvet cave 20. "Horny Little Man." 21. a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment 22. APOLLO 11 stones 23-25 El Castillo Cave Spain Made by the Neanderthals.
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- 50. Based on thelesson we discussed, ancient people used handprints or hand stencils on rocks and caves. Now, it’s your turn to create your own masterpiece by creating a figure using your handprints.
- 51. Make your own.Avoid copying ideas to others. Write a simple caption to describe your masterpiece. Use a watercolor and put your artwork in a ¼ sheet of cardboard Deadline: AUGUST 12,2016