Caves

In “the allegory of the cave” is about four individuals who are chained by their head, arms, and legs facing a wall, up a long stair way a fire is going and people are walking by caring sculpture. Now the people at in the cave only had this to go by so this what they believe what they thought was real life. One day someone come down and let one of them go but he was reluctant to leave his position, so the men began to push him to feet and up the stair case until they reach the up. The man who was in the cave fell to the floor letting his eyes adjust to the brightness of everything. After he began to look around and see everything. When he thought about the others and telling about how what they have been seeing was not real. they did not believe him and to prove he was wrong they played a game because he did not win they all laughed at him and he…

As long as Egypt contains many areas that full of mountains, normally we found caves inside. The ancient Egyptians progressively enhanced these natural existed caves until they were buildings altogether, or until they appeared as buildings carved into the solid rock. The Egyptians used these caves in their worship. The god in the ordinary city-temples repeated the First Time when god emerged from the waters of chaos on the primeval mound. However, in the cave-shrine resembles the womb from which…

Reed Flute Cave is a water eroded cave formation with various stalactites, rock formations, stone pillars. Along with the beautiful scenes, there are multiple bodies of water inside the cave. Most of these features were created due to carbonate deposition. The cave is 5 kilometers from Guilin City, China and was discovered by a group of refugees who were fleeing the Japanese in World War II. They thought that they were the first ones to discover it. Upon further investigation, they found 70…

Bat Guano Caves The best cave for the students to visit is the Lava River Cave. This is based on the diversity of the bats in the area, the accessibility of the cave and area, and the effect that white nose syndrome, or white nose syndrome, has had on the species of bats that live in the area. This cave in Coconino National Forest is close to the Northern Arizona University, and is by far the best choice for a class studying bats and white nose syndrome of the options given, which are the…

The cave of Chauvet may be the most important discovery of cave work ever. Some historians believe that the Cave may possibly some of the oldest cave art know to the world. The cave is very beautiful and historical and it is very important to the study of cave art. The cave was discover on the eighteenth of December, Nineteen Ninety Four. The cave was accidently discovered when Jean-Marie Chauvet and his two other speleologists friends were wondering around the Ardèche Valley, in southern…

Today's lesson objective is: The student will create chalk drawings and animal studies in the style of cave drawings. As we’ve already covered, the Cosquer Cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France. Its newer art consists of signs and 177 animals, representing both "classical" animals such as bison, ibex, and horses, and marine animals such as seals and what appear to be auks and jellyfish. But the older art consists of 65 hand stencils and other related motifs. While the…

Cave Paintings and Graffiti Cave paintings are one of the earliest known art forms. It is not known for certain why ancient people spent time creating these works. It is clear that over the course of human history, humans have a tendency of marking the places they inhabit. This trend has carried on into the present day, in the form of graffiti. Both styles of art can tell the viewer a great deal about who created the work, including their culture practices or personal opinions. The piece…

A discovery such as the Chauvet Cave, which considered the oldest known rock art place in the world, has a lot of surprising paintings that dating about 

30,000-32,000 years ago. scientist’s big knowledge helped them to have clear ideas and facts about the walls paintings because of many reasons. From the materials that have been used for the painting they were referred to the paleolithic time. For example, The scientists found out that some of the paintings has created with red ochre. While…

“The Science Behind Caves Paintings” The term "cave painting" enclose any parietal art which involves the application of color pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. The start of cave art was estimated to be starting around 40,000 BCE. From about this date that the earliest rock art began to emerge in caves and rock shelters around the world. Magura Cave, Bulgaria, Cave of El Castillo, Spain, Lascaux, France, Grotte de Cussac, France, Pech Merle, near Cabrerets,…

It’s important to remember that Niaux Cave is one of Europe's most impressive Paleolithic rock art galleries of cave paintings. Niaux Cave has been visited since the 17th century - as shown by the graffiti, dated as early as 1602. But it was not until 1906, when the cave paintings in the main chamber of the cave—Salon Noir—were acknowledged as prehistoric, that the preservation of the cave and the study of the paintings began. Now, through radiocarbon dating of the charcoal, we know the rock art…