Prehistoric Art

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Prehistoric Art
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Pictograph Painting on a surface like a cave
wall.
Petroglyph Design carved into rock or other
surface.
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Kentucky Rock Art
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Cave of Lascaux, France
Discovered by four boys in 1940. Caves are
filled with pictographs and petroglyphs of
hundreds of animals.
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There are almost 600 pictures of animals, mostly
horses. Other animals painted are stags,
bulls, bison, and ibex.
Only one man is painted.
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Why did they paint the cave? What do
the paintings mean?
Just the animals that were around at that time.
Instructions on how to hunt or not to hunt.
The cave was used for religious ceremonies.
Painting were for good luck in hunting.
PowerPoint created by Amy J McCray, WKU
Anthropology Undergrad. 2005.
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References

• Coy, Fred, Thomas C. Fuller, Larry G. Meadows,
  and James L. Swauger. Rock Art of Kentucky.
  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY,
  2003.
• Google Images. 1 December 2005.
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• The Caves of Lascaux. 1 May 2005.
• lthttp//www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascau
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