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Creepy Things About Prehistoric Cave Paintings | Enigma Files

Qxir | October 2, 2024



You’ve probably seen lots of prehistoric cave paintings – but have ever seen a human face depicted in them?

“In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin. These paintings were often created by Homo sapiens, but also Denisovans and Neanderthals; other species in the same Homo genus. Discussion around prehistoric art is important in understanding the history of the Homo sapiens species and how Homo sapiens have come to have unique abstract thoughts. Some point to these prehistoric paintings as possible examples of creativity, spirituality, and sentimental thinking in prehistoric humans.
The oldest known are more than 40,000 years old (art of the Upper Paleolithic) and found in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia). The oldest are often constructed from hand stencils and simple geometric shapes. More recently, in 2021, cave art of a pig found in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and dated to over 45,500 years ago, has been reported.
A 2018 study claimed an age of 64,000 years for the oldest examples of non-figurative cave art in the Iberian Peninsula. Represented by three red non-figurative symbols found in the caves of Maltravieso, Ardales and La Pasiega, Spain, these predate the appearance of modern humans in Europe by at least 20,000 years and thus must have been made by Neanderthals rather than modern humans.
In November 2018, scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an unknown animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the Indonesian island of Borneo. In December 2019, cave paintings portraying pig hunting within the Maros-Pangkep karst region in Sulawesi were discovered to be even older, with an estimated age of at least 43,900 years. This finding was recognized as “the oldest known depiction of storytelling and the earliest instance of figurative art in human history.””

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting

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  1. @mrbeardmTV

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    To the one where they only drew animals and not humans as well, it could simply mean: "Hey you random person who stumbled here and is lost, watch out! There's bears around here!" or something like that. To paint what animals are in the area to warn others or to mark the area for hunting to know what it's there.

  2. @iamthegaminghellcat341

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    What if, the cavemen who did draw, drew stuff they saw that isn’t them, so they put much more detail into the animals, because they aren’t always seen or are a sign of good or bad for them, and the reason they don’t do much more than draw stick figures of humans because of the fact that they lived with and saw each other, or other tribes almost everyday, so it wasn’t as much of a delight or negative thing as a animal.

  3. @watchletter

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    I think argument that the hand signs on the argument that the hand signs are a form of communication because not every permutation was used is quite weak because an artist applying paint with one hand is far more likely to only use the permutations that are comfortable for one hand wich were all used.

  4. @freyastuchbery7130

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    I have one theory: drawing a detailed human form on the wall of a dark cave would be freaky as fuck whenever you came back to the cave. The next generation or two might lose knowledge of the cave, then shine a torch in, and see a man on the wall. Terrifying.

  5. @MoNKeYy002

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    I think why caveman don't want to draw faces because once they finished drawing it, they would thought that's how ugly they are considering there still no mirrors created back at ancient times.

  6. @Poorexampeofhuman

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    I mean what's there like tablets back in the way all day so you can buy like you know p*** scratched into clay tablets or something I mean like yeah I don't think that it's a new invention. I was told by a researcher that the oldest human profession that we know of is prostitution. So I'm thinking that p*** had to come in somewhere around there?

  7. @shuukenji6585

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    Archeologists: "As you can see from this Cave Painting there seems to be a humanoid entity that is drawn with correct anatomical body however with disproportionate eyes, elongated hands and crooked feet… This might be an anomaly of or even a missing link to our human nature…"

    Caveman Artist: " ME HATE DRAWING EYES! ME HATE DRAWING HANDS! ME HATE… wait if me draw man with weird and bad may be they think its new art style…hehehe "

  8. @archstanton3931

    October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    Indigenous peoples have often, though not universally, taken issue with being photographed. Perhaps the lack of specific representation of individuals speaks to that being a deeply rooted idea. Perhaps not.

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