Bison In Cave Art

Art began with craving in crave. No one really understand why human began to paint and carve image within crave. Many of the carving found were carving of animals. For example Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the cave at Altamira, Spain, ca. 13,000–11,000 bce. Bison horn and bison itself had a strong meaning in their art. Bison are very common in crave painting. They are also server sculpture of bison. Does bison meaning hard working? Does painting them give them magic property? Craving bison in cave could mean putting under their control. These assumption are very reasonable since they rely on bison for hunting and gathering. Addition to carving and painting of animal. There were figures combining human and animal. Human with feline head (30,000-28,000 BCE) it was a large ivory figure of a human with a feline head. Could they have used it so associate animal with ranking or higher being?

Moreover, animals wasn’t the only are commonly found during the Old Stone Age. Women were far more common subject than men. Many women figure found where female features such as breast, abdomen and hip are exaggerated. But, no detail on face. For instance, Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf), ca. 28,000–25,000 BCE. From my personal understand of preview art, I believe it could be because woman were commonly known for reproduction.
Neolithic art (New Stone Age) 8000-2300BCE D D.
Neolithic period was where everything changed.

Human began to revolutionize away from hunting and gathering. Human life begin toward agriculture. During this period was where monumental sculpture began. It started with skull restoration. There were now more human painting instead of animal. There was a lot of megalithic found during this time. Megaliths. (Great stone) was using for honoring the death. There were all unique arrangement of megaliths also known as Stonehenge. Stonehenge it was actually a big, ancient calendar designed to keep track of time and important astronomical events. However, it could had been representation of religious shrine. Majority of the Stonehenge pointed to where the sun rise. Could it mean that they believed in higher being and rebirth? The most famous megalithic monument in Europe is Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in southern England. A henge is an arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle. Could had been some kind of ritual? Even today we still can guess of all the possibility. Art has millions of meanings, there is no one right

answer.