Caves

engravings of animals and abstract designs. These may have been created with the aid of torches and stone lamps filled with animal fat to produce light for the artists! (Maybe even bull fat!) The paint colors, or pigments, used to paint Lascaux and other caves were made from commonly found minerals. When ground they would create colors such as red, yellow, black, brown, and violet. No brushes have been found. This means that the broad black outlines were probably created using pieces of moss or…

successive time periods, one can develop a sense for these changes of style as well as the reasoning behind them. Pieces from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Greek, and Roman periods are great examples of this. The Hall of Bulls is located deep within the caves of Lascaux, France and is an interesting example of Paleolithic art. At first glance, the paintings seem rudimentary, unstructured, and insignificant. Further inspection reveals their beauty and importance. The paintings have…

had the feeling of being trapped in a damp, wet cave at least once in their life. However, only the bravest and smartest people will escape the cave using knowledge obtained by disbelief of the manipulators, or the oppressors. The bravest and the smartest people will find the truth and have a better life than the ones who remained trapped inside the cave with lack of knowledge and without a vast perspective of life. I have finally escaped the cave and I…

The film Cave of Forgotten Dreams takes the viewer inside the lost cave presently known as the Chauvet Cave of Southern France. Once inside the filmmaker Werner Herzog captures the pictures of the oldest paintings of humankind in their natural setting among the walls of this long lost subterranean area. As a result, a group of scientist discovered this cave in 1994 , and it was given the name Chauvet Cave after one of the members of the three person party. After entering the small opening to…

Looking around, they were amazed at all the beautiful colors that looked to be afire in the rocks. None had even seen anything like it. “Look, Papa; that column goes all the way to the top!” Charles exclaimed. The cave was nothing like neither the cave they stayed in after the whirlpool wind nor the one they found Wheeler and the girl in; this one had pockets of very colorful rocks. There were crystals of lavender and orange, and different shades of umber; from gingery, yellow brown to dark…

In the essay “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, he questions what it means to be “enlightened” and how one should use their knowledge to better the “State.” Plato answers these questions with an allegory, which is “a story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.” Through this allegory, Plato begins to describe an underground cave, in which humans have been kept, chained to only see one wall, their whole lives. Due to this limited vision, the only…

they would believe that the shadows of objects on the stone wall were "real". One day, they escaped and went outside the cave. The light of truth made them feel hurt. They realized that the game they used to play together – guessing what would appear next on the stone wall was useless because all of them were not real. Someone would like to come back to the darkness of the cave, where they thought they were safe. Someone would realize the genuine knowledge, then they wanted to help others. These…

The Man in The Cave Proserpina was a very stubborn child. She almost never listened to her mother, because in her words “She was too cautious and boring.” Her mother being Ceres (the goddess of Agriculture), of course. One day Ceres said to Proserpina “You must not go beyond the gates of our house today, there is a riot in the next town over that is happening currently.” Ceres continued saying “because it doesn’t seem like it will stop anytime soon I fear that I may have to intervene.”…

and why caves became such a critical aspect of the Maya’s worldview. Caves have long been recognized as important locations for ritual (Heyden 1975 Pohl and Pohl 1983), but through the consideration of human-environment interactions at caves, one can see that the very concept of “caves” were sacred to the Maya. Maya religion was heavily influenced by it’s agricultural society and this is highlighted by the earth being symbolized as the source of power and fertility (Ishihara 2008:169). Caves, as…

Plato tells a scene through the conversation between of one of his students, Glaucon, and his mentor, Socrates. The scene, titled Allegory of the Cave, represents the state of the human race, who is blind to reality. The allegory continues to demonstrate what happens when one person becomes enlightened. Socrates describes a scene set deep in a cave, where a group of men sit chained to a wall. Above and behind them another group of men hold up a flat cut-out shape that resembles an object. They…