What are the major themes present in cave art? Why do you think landscape or vegetation of the time is not depicted in the art?

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The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer. Tracings of human hands and hand stencils were also very popular, as well as abstract patterns called finger flutings.

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Cave art is one of the oldest forms of painting done by ancient people.

  • They painted their hands by spraying paint (mineral pigment) towards the cave walls where their hands worked as stencils.
  • The cave also has a painting of animals like cattle, bulls, rhinoceros, bison, equines, felines, bear, birds, etc.
  • Landscape and vegetation were not painted for their hunting and gathering practices.
  • They considered animals and birds important as they provided meat, furs and bones to make tools.
  • Animals fascinated them as they followed them, and watched their activities and hunted for survival.

Therefore we can conclude that the painting in caves is related to animals, birds and humans.

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