What is portrayed in Caveman Art?
The beauty of caveman art is that the pictures depicted were very simple, they usually portray animals, birds, plants, things, and humans, sometimes hunting scenes. The drawings were very simplified to the extent that in certain cases they were not outline art but rather line art, (i.e. reducing the whole picture to the minimum essential strokes of curves and straight lines that represent that particular figure that was drawn). If you are the type of person who is interested in detailed and technical explanation, please continue with “More Info”, otherwise scroll down to other topics. More Info on Caveman Art: Here is what the “Collins Dictionary of Archaeology” (1992) edited by Paul Bahn, says: “The art of the last Ice Age that is usually divided into three groups: (a) portable or mobiliary art, comprising a wide variety of forms, from engraved stones to carvings in antler or ivory. Thousands of such pieces are known from Spain and Siberia; (b) deep engravings or bas-reliefs on large
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