It is possible that all this painting was of a religious nature. It is interesting that the ancient artists did not just draw, they also skillfully used the natural contours of the walls to create the effect of a three-dimensional image, that is, their thinking was very similar to ours. The drawings are on the ceiling and walls of the main hall, as well as in the corridors and other halls. Obviously, they were made not only with fingers, but also with the help of special devices made for this purpose. They are made with coal, as well as ocher, hematite and other mineral paints. The drawings include bison, horses, wild boars, and human handprints. The main hall is 18 meters long and 2 to 6 meters high. In addition, copies of drawings from Altamira can be seen in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid, as well as in the German Museum in Munich, and in Japan.Īs for the cave itself, its length is 270 meters and there are several corridors and halls in it. We decided not to let tourists go there, but to place exact copies of the drawings in the museum next to the cave, which was done in 2001. As a result, mold started up in it, threatening to destroy valuable images, and a real war had to be waged with it. So, in the 60-70s of the last century, it was visited by up to 1500 people a day, and then there were no fewer of them.
Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985, it has attracted and continues to attract the attention of a huge number of tourists. the ceiling, so it was named “ Sistine Chapel of Primitive Art". That is, people visited it for about 22 years, until the main entrance was covered by a landslide.Ī significant part of the drawings were made on. Moreover, the pictures on its walls have a long history and belong to the Madeleine, Soltureisk, as well as the Gravette and early Aurignacian cultures, which was found out thanks to the uranium-thorium dating method. This is a natural formation, and her drawings are perhaps the most valuable monument of Stone Age art. The Altamira cave is located in Spain (Santillana del Mar, 30 km west of the city of Santadera), but it was discovered in 1879. Among the "painted caves" the most famous is perhaps the Altamira cave. It was proved that the earliest images belong to the Upper Paleolithic, that is, they are at least 20-XNUMX thousand years old. Then, however, under the pressure of facts, I had to agree that the hands of primitive hunters could hold not only an ax and a spear, but also tools for painting.
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Well, as today there are people who do not believe that primitive hunters hunted mammoths, so then there were those who believed that they still did not know how to draw. very many did not believe that the drawings that covered their walls were made by primitive people. To begin with, until the middle of the 40th century, no one knew anything about these caves, and when they began to open them, then.
Let's visit the most famous caves of this purpose on the territory of our country and in Europe, and see to what level the people of that distant time reached in the development of art. That is, it can be considered proven that they were not only and not so much lived as they were a kind of "centers of spiritual culture" of ancient people, "picturesque galleries" of the Stone Age. However, the significance of the caves for the people of the Stone Age was far from being exhausted. We got acquainted with the finds made in these caves. Last time we visited the "residential caves" where the Neanderthals of the Paleolithic era lived. And he came to the sheep's pen by the way there was a cave, and Saul went there for the need David and his men were sitting in the depths of the cave.