Some Prehistoric Most Famous Paintings in the World

Some Prehistoric Most Famous Paintings in the World

In this post will  present some  prehistoric most famous paintings in the world. these they are:

1. Kakadu painting stone

Located in the Northern Territory of Australia, Kakadu National Park contains one of the largest concentrations of Australian Aboriginal art sites. Approximately 5,000 art sites have been found along the slopes of Kakadu and the rock outliers. Prehistoric Aboriginal paintings are estimated to range between 20,000 years until recently even though most of the paintings are less than 1500 years old. Site at Ubirr has some of the best examples of "art X-ray (X-ray art)" in the world. Aboriginal painting not only outside but also bone organs and internal organs of animals.

2. Gua Altamira

Discovered in the late 19th century, Caves of Altamira in northern Spain is the first cave in which prehistoric paintings discovered. The paintings that have exceptional quality so that the scientific community doubted their authenticity and even accused the inventor, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola forgery. Many people who do not believe that prehistoric humans had the intellectual capacity to produce all kinds of artistic expression. However, in 1902 these paintings to be authentic. Charcoal and ocher paintings of horses, bison and hand prints in Altamira Cave is one of the best-preserved cave paintings in the world.

3. Lascaux Painting

Dubbed "the Sistine Chapel of prehistory", Cave of Lascaux is a complex of caves in southwestern France decorated with some of the most impressive cave paintings and famous in the world. Lascaux prehistoric paintings estimated 17,000 years old. Most of the cave paintings located quite far from the entrance and logic have been created with the help of lighting candles. The most famous cave paintings is The Great Hall of the Bulls where cows, horses, and deer depicted. One cow in the painting has a length of 5.2 meters (17 feet), this is the largest animal paintings ever discovered in the cave.

  Due to the damage caused by too many people are visiting this cave, Lascaux paintings have been permanently closed to the public. The French government has built Lascaux II near the site where tourists can see a copy of the original cave.

4. Serra da Capirava

Serra da Capivara National Park in northeastern Brazil is home to many rock shelters are decorated with cave paintings. The prehistoric paintings including scenes of ritual, hunting, painting trees and animals capivaras (capybara is the largest rodent species that still exist). Some scientists believe that the cave paintings here were created 25,000 years ago. This is disputed by some geneticists because it would conflict with the date of the first human settlements in the United States that has been generally accepted.

5. Laas Gaal

Laas Gaal is a complex of caves and rock shelters in northwestern Somalia that contains some of the earliest rock art known in the Horn of Africa and the African continent at large. This prehistoric painting thought to have originated between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago. These paintings show cattle in the ceremony along with humans, pet dogs and even giraffes. Cave paintings are very well preserved to maintain clear lines and strong colors.

6. Tadrat Acacus

Tadrart Acacus mountains form the western Sahara desert in Libya. This area is known for its rock paintings from 12,000 BC to 100 AD. The prehistoric paintings reflect the changing environment of the Sahara desert that used to have a wetter climate. Nine thousand years ago the Sahara was green environment with lakes and forests as well as a large herd of wild animals such as giraffes, elephants and ostriches, as shown by the rock paintings in Acacus Tadrart.

7. Chauvet Cave

Chauvet Cave in southern France contains some known prehistoric paintings in the world. Based on radiocarbon dating of the oldest paintings in this cave may be up to 32,000 years. The cave was discovered in 1994 by Jean-Marie Chauvet and his team of speleologists. These paintings contain images of animals such as ibex, mammoth, horses, lions, bears, rhinos and lions. Sophisticated techniques such as the use of perspective is clearly shown in the 'panel of horses' which shows some of the animals in the same field.