The Oldest Cave Paintings - Nikola Kalapasev

During one of our classes we watched a documentary involving the exploration of a cave in France that had a plethora of cave paintings. These cave paintings are thought to be some of the oldest, if not the oldest, in the world. The cave was able to preserve these paintings and depictions so well because the only entrance to the cave got sealed in by a bunch of rocks that allowed to cave to be untainted by the outside world. The discovery of these paintings hold a lot of weight as well. These paintings could be dated back to almost 30000 BC. The paintings contained depictions of various animals that this civilization encountered, different events and rituals that happened, or even the different types of people that were alive during that time This art in the cave paintings is important for because it allows the others to interpret their civilization in the way that the civilization wanted. Overall, the thought that there were entities capable of painting advanced pictures on cave walls 30,000 years ago is mind bending. I'm glad that as humans we were able to discover the cave and study it in this way. 

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