Cave Paintings Essay

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The Impression of Cave Paintings I choose to draw a male deer with antlers because it something that is associated with nature. I feel that many people know what deer are and know that they have existed for many years. A deer means a lot to me. I have grown up in the outdoors and have spent a lot of time with friends and family hunting deer. To me it’s a past time, an adrenalin rush, as well as a way to put extra food on the table. Deer hunting is a way to get in touch with true nature; it has been a way for people to provide food for their families for hundreds of years. Also deer are magnificent creatures and it’s amazing that they can be found all over the world. The cave drawings in the Chauvet Cave show a couple of horses looking in one direction and below the horses two rhinos fighting. They might have drawn rhinos because they are powerful animals and horses because they where a way of travel. What makes the drawing strange is that horses and rhinos are drawn together. It makes you wonder where these regular horses or zebras, if they where regular horses what where they doing in the same areas with rhinos. These drawings must have had a purpose, most likely to tell a story or explain the culture of the Paleolithic period. The horses do and don’t have the same significance as they did in the Paleolithic period; yes we still use them to ride but not to for the same reason as nomads did. Today we use them for recreation but the nomads they where a way of life without horses it may have changed their whole culture. The rhinos on the other hand are depicted very much like we see them today. I think that if humans in future viewed a picture of a deer that they would wonder why it was so significant to our culture. A cave drawing of a deer in North America would show that deer have either always been here or where once hear, even if extinct when people

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