Cave Art In Europe is a blog about the most interesting pieces of rock art found throughout Europe.

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We try to provide a detailed description of the location, context, background information and information about the artists behind each piece.

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A few years ago, in an effort to find new, interesting places to visit, I started looking closer at the European caves with rock art. Some of these caves are more than 40,000 years old and contain some of the most interesting examples of prehistoric art in the world.

The article will be filled with pictures and comments about these beautiful caves and their art.*

Cave paintings and rock carvings are found throughout Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Urals. The earliest European rock art dates from c.40,000 BC. It is a controversial subject, with scholars divided into several schools of interpretation.

The three most widely held theories are:

1) The images are random products of natural forces (wind, etc) acting on essentially featureless rocks

2) The images were produced by nomadic hunters as part of an extended shamanic tradition, or as a form of sympathetic magic

3) The images were produced by settled peoples who had already developed agriculture and permanent settlements

The second theory is associated with ethnographic studies in which anthropologists observe contemporary tribal societies in order to understand prehistoric societies. The third theory is associated with the development of agriculture, long-distance trade and complex social organisation.

The most widely accepted position is that cave art was primarily produced by hunter-gatherer peoples in association with shamanic rituals; but some recent studies have suggested that it may also have been produced by early farmers.

The team said in a statement that the find was one of the most important discoveries of rock art in France.

The site is at the foot of cliffs near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, in south-west France, where thousands of prehistoric paintings and engravings have been found since the 19th century.

The famous Grotte Chauvet nearby contains some of the earliest known paintings – believed to date back some 36,000 years.

The discovery site is expected to be closed off to allow specialists to carry out a full excavation.

Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, president of the French National Heritage Institute, said: “This is an exceptional find.”

There are three types of engravings on the panel: geometric shapes; human figures, including one holding a spear and another in an archer’s pose; and animals including bison, reindeer and bears.

“This is a very important discovery,” said Jean Clottes, former head of archeology at the caves of Lascaux.

“These are unusual images that are difficult to interpret,” he told AFP news agency. “It will take some time before we understand.”

Cave art is the oldest form of art. It is also called rock art, parietal art or cave painting. The earliest known cave paintings are in the Chauvet Cave in France. They are believed to be 32,000 years old.

The oldest paintings in Europe are red dots on a cave floor that date back over 40,000 years. Some of the most impressive pieces of prehistoric European cave art can be found in the Altamira Caves in Spain and in the Lascaux Caves in France.

Learning about prehistoric men could be difficult but when you go inside a cave or even see a reproduction of prehistoric paintings it helps us understand our past and how much we have changed throughout time.

Cave art is the name given to a wide range of drawings and etchings made on rock surfaces in caves or on the walls of other shelters. The purpose and meaning of these images remains mostly unknown.

Cave art was produced by hunter-gatherer societies, usually referred to as Paleolithic, in the Stone Age. The oldest known cave art dates back 40,800 years ago.

Cave art is a type of prehistoric art found in caves or other underground spaces. The finest examples consist of paintings on cave walls and ceilings, but cave art may also include carved or engraved drawings on rock surfaces, as well as petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (rock paintings).

Writing in the 4th century BC, Heraclitus noted: “Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.”

Cave paintings were only discovered in the mid 19th century. Archaeologists have studied the art and the techniques used to make it. Some of these studies helped to establish the field of archeology. Archaeological studies have included trying to date the paintings and to determine the exact location of the art in the cave. Researchers have also looked for connections between different styles of art, both within a particular cave and between different caves. They have also looked for patterns that could suggest what purpose or purposes each painting might have served for those who made them.

Artists used more than brush and paint to create the images they wanted viewers to see. When they created an image, they did not simply place a dot on a wall and leave it at that. They added lines and other effects to create an image that stood out from its surroundings