Cueva de El Castillo Looking at the Stone Age Cueva de El Castillo Looking at the Stone Age Located in the northern most province of Spain, Cueva of El Castillo arguably holds the oldest cave paintings known to earth. The "Cave of the Castle" has over 150 images catalogued with several dating 35,000 years old and a few dating 40,800 years. (U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art) Spanish archaeologist Hermilio Alcalde del Rio first discovered the cave in 1903 on his quest to learn about early cave paintings. He found the time of these earliest paintings are in the Aurignacian cultural era, tools used in this time were made of bone, flint and antler. The paintings and carvings in the cave were made with these early tools.
For example, the reindeer painted in the Spanish cave of Cueva de las Monedas shows the illustrations in the last Ice Age. The oldest known cave art happens to be the Cave of El Castillo in the northern part of Spain. Hand designs and disks crafted by blowing paint on the wall in El Castillo cave were discovered to go back to at least 40,000 years, making it oldest known cave art in
Tattoos and piercings date back to early man. According to Etyonline, an online etymology dictionary, the word tattoo is derived from the Tahitian and Samoan word tatau and the Marquesan tatu, both of which mean puncture, mark made on the skin. The oldest recorded tattoos are believed to be from about 3300 B.C. They were found on the body of the Iceman found in the Otzal Alps in 1991. Professor Konrad Spindler of the Innsbruck University theorized that the Iceman’s 57 tattoos were probably done with charcoal and were possibly done for ornamental, magical, or maybe even social status.
Until recently, the Chauvet cave paintings in France were believed to be the oldest, dating back to approximately 32,000 BCE; however, using carbon dating of the calcium deposits formed over the mineral-based paint, the cave paintings found in Spain’s are now believed to be over 40,000 years old [ (Than, 2012) ]. There has been speculation that these older paintings are the first evidence that Neanderthals could have been the first cave
Body A. Throughout ancient time, graffiti has been a means of communication. 1. According to the PBS production, “The History of Graffiti,” the very first people to use graffiti were the cave men. (PowerPoint) They drew pictures of animals, family members, and events that happened.
The early people who scraped primitive drawings onto cave walls used some of the same tools and techniques that artisans still use today. Since then engraving gave the beginning for the art of inlay! D. Preview: Because the entire history of the art of inlay up to modern times is too extensive i will focus only on three questions: Why did people inlay? what materials and technique do modern artists use for inlay? Transition: Let`s find out why ancient people did inlay.
This form of artwork has survived for thousands of years, and over those years tools used to make this artwork have evolved. This art form is called tattooing; tools used to create these tattoos have had many different names and many different tools. Tattooing has been around since the earliest civilizations; including the Japanese and the Polynesian, but the art was refined by the Western method. The discovery of the Iceman in 1991 date tattoos back to about 5,200 years ago. The Iceman was recovered from an area of the Italian-Austrian border.
Tattoos are accepted in many cultures, they date back to early Egyptian times, mummies have been found with markings to bring them into the afterlife safely. The oldest known tattoos were found on a mummified body found in the Alps in 1991. It was found to be over 5,000 years old. Throughout history, tattoos have been symbols for religion, affiliation, social status and self-expression. According to a survey, 24 percent of Americans ages 18 to 50 have at least one tattoo.
Although this act seems new to most it has been around for some time, but has been traced back to the times of the Mandan tribe in the United States, located on the banks of the Missouri river, and to the Hindu culture for thousands of years in Asia and the Middle East. During these times the suspension was exercised as a spiritual ritual (Musafar). Modern day suspensions are closely related to the artwork of performance artists that use their own bodies as canvases or are just simply a form of entertainment. Roland Loomis, known as Fakir Musafar, was an artist who specialized in suspension and piercing performance pieces, also starting the Modern Primitivism movement. He was mostly responsible for bringing attention to body suspension to the modern United States for purposes other than spiritual rituals (Guimarin).
The Picts were supposedly tattooed (or scarified) with elaborate dark blue woad (or possibly copper for the blue tone) designs, though only Julius Caesar described these tattoos in Book V of his Gallic Wars (54 BCE). Tattooing for spiritual and decorative purposes in Japan is thought to extend back to at least the Jōmon or Paleolithic period (approximately 10,000 BCE) and was widespread during various periods for both the Japanese and the native Ainu. Chinese visitors observed and remarked on the tattoos in Japan (300 BCE); this just shows that tattoos have their own meaning in each culture and