Cave of Forgotten Dreams What could an old piece of art tell us about the lives of early humans? Believe it or not, old pieces of art from the Paleolithic era has lead us to amazing discoveries and interpretations about the life style of the early humans. 30,000 years ago, keeping records of events had no importance to humans, their only goal in life was to survive. Even though there is no clear record of prehistoric human events, painters and sculptors of that time left behind some cave artworks that continue to exist until our recent days. Scientists such as paleontologists, art historians, geologists, archeologists, have studied and observed these Paleolithic art traces to create theories about early humans and their lives. Their theories introduced important concepts in the anthropology, and the
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Who drew these paintings? Why where they painted? How exactly were they painted? We will never truly know the stories that happened inside this cave. The vanished human history cannot be retrieved. However the main goal of researchers is to suggest and create theories about what could have happened there. (Werner Herzog 2010). Another dilemma is that even though scientists have determined an age for these paintings, it is an approximate number, which also means we will never know the exact age of these prehistoric arts. The Chauvet Cave and many other caves are gates to the prehistoric world, where we can investigate to partially satisfy our curiosity about the prehistoric era.
The paintings of those early humans could say much about their lives, but as the prehistoric human events are vanished, we have only little evidences to predict accurate information about life back then. In my opinion prehistoric art has its own beauty as it creates an endless series of thoughts and theories that might someday lead us to more discoveries, and answer more of our curious
Who drew these paintings? Why where they painted? How exactly were they painted? We will never truly know the stories that happened inside this cave. The vanished human history cannot be retrieved. However the main goal of researchers is to suggest and create theories about what could have happened there. (Werner Herzog 2010). Another dilemma is that even though scientists have determined an age for these paintings, it is an approximate number, which also means we will never know the exact age of these prehistoric arts. The Chauvet Cave and many other caves are gates to the prehistoric world, where we can investigate to partially satisfy our curiosity about the prehistoric era.
The paintings of those early humans could say much about their lives, but as the prehistoric human events are vanished, we have only little evidences to predict accurate information about life back then. In my opinion prehistoric art has its own beauty as it creates an endless series of thoughts and theories that might someday lead us to more discoveries, and answer more of our curious