Cave Paintings

 

Hand Paintings

The picture above show cave paintings from tens of thousand of years ago, they depict the hands of the ancient tribes from the Santa Cruz province in Argentina. This is believed to have been done by placing your hand on the wall and spraying paint from your mouth onto your hand/wall leaving the silhouette of your hand. This is kind of life early spray painting.

I believe that this is a way of showing a close community, having each of the tribe members to create one of these allows us to see how big the tribes were. Or that stamping boys hand on the cave wall was used to symbolise a him turning into a man.

Cave Painting

this is the most common type of cave painting involving some kind of hunt/chase involving men hunting all sorts of animal, normally deer or buffalo , depending on what part of the world they lived in. the hunters are using bows and arrows, spears an clubs this tells us they had tools and weapons .

the fact that this sort of seen is so common in cave paintings an the amount of detail tells us how important hunting was to their survival and how important it was in their culture.