Creepy Things About Prehistoric Cave Paintings | Enigma Files

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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@mintyxminty9350
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Was that a boner?
@danield2685
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
They didn't cut their fingers off. They just closed them. Der
@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.
@evervirescent
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
uncanny valley maybe?
@relicturtle7373
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
I like the idea that the cave painting are from beings that understood the world and themselves and had no real ego or self individual beliefs but are apart of a whole
@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.
@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.
@Draco-j3s
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
what about leprechaun cave paintings?
@dracula-spits
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
For me, I think totemism might explain the issue. The different animals might represent a different tribe or clan.
@King_Pitt
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Maybe the way they drew animals is the way aliens sculpted them
@benjaminfry6640
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
You restricted your audience by making it child-unfriendly at the end. Not judging; just an observation.
@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.
@lilhedgehog8576
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
8:48 I love this! 😂😂❤
@-qi8dt
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Faces are hard to draw, what if i draw it ugly and the person gets offended
@laineyBoog
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
the cave paintings in utah are pretty creepy
@serbianslav5494
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Why does that face in the thumbnail look like Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie the Head as he's depicted on the band's debut album?
@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.
@BaoBao0923
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
I have near zero photos of myself on my phone, idk what you meant at 8:30
@BaoBao0923
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
As soon as you said “paint themselves” I was wondering, where tf will they get a mirror or vertical puddle of water
@euboy6
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
good question, its times like this i wish i has a time machine
@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?
@Poorexampeofhuman
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
I'm also wondering how come there's no like cave p***
@kalanirichmond541
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
This video was ass
@Apple_Beshy
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Kek
@nifto8556
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
1:27
To fit the blade, we will have to remove a finger.
wrong finger
wrong finger again
third times the charm?
dammit not again
@beidousimpd5309
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Another reason can be the fact that faces are generally very hard to draw and get right. Considering they probably didn’t have many tries, only the “best” faces were kept.
@DrFigs
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
LOOK UP WANDJINA CAVE PAINTINGS
@theabstractguy411
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Its good to know even cave painters struggled to draw people…
@birder1298
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
The australian wildlife got nerfed as soon as humans arrived
@r3kt4u20
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
I wanna find a random cave and put cave paintings in it for someone to find
@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 "
@OscarLopez-gw3jx
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
it's hard to draw human faces tbh
@lannys8660
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
100% going on with the missing fingers being a kind of "written" sign
@MrPineeeapppless
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
What if they were just playing Pictionary in order to pass the time while it was raining ? 😂
@stuv1996
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Another possible explanation for Chauvet cave is that it was a lone person who made the painting and didnt have anyone for reference
@TheJack2459
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
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@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.
@steveculbert4039
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Please practice pronouncing "thirty-two" correctly. You are a well educated speaker of English.
@TheOfficialGuyFieri
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
Tirty tu
@Zach-ku6eu
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 pm
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