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Cave Painting in southeast Asia

There are a lot of cave paintings in this area for example in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma

In Thailand there are many galleries that have cave paintings in them on the Thai-Burmese border,Petchabun Range in Central Thailand, and overlooking the Mekong River in Nakorn Sawan Province.

The oldest paintings can be found in Malaysia at the Gua Tambun in Perak,these are 2000 years old. There are more in Niah caves National park these are dated back 1200 years.
The Negrito tribes came back to Malaysia caves to add modern objects to the cave paintings like cars this happened in the 1920s.

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  Indonesia caves in Maros these are famous for the hand prints. Shown in the image above.

Also  in Padah-Lin Caves of Burna 11,000 paintings were found with many rock tools.

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Cave Paintings in India

The earliest sign of human life in India is the Bhimbetka rock shelters it shows that some of these shelters were inhabited for 100,000 years. The earliest cave paintings are meant to be from the  Mesolithic period.

The latest paintings found are said to be from the medieval periods. The paintings are usually in the colours red and white with the occasional use of green and yellow. These paintings showed the lives of the people who lived in the caves they have images of childbirth,communal dancing and drinking.



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Cave Painting in North America

The tribe called Chumash drew the cave paintings in Santa Barbara,Ventura and in southern californa. The picture to the right is an example of the cave paintings in Santa Barbara.



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Cave Painting in South America

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 Serra da Capivara National Park in the north of Brazil is a national park that was created to protect many prehistoric cave paintings found here. This is now a world heritage site. The picture above is an image of some cave paintings found at this site.

Cueva de loas manos this is the Spanish for the "Cave of hands". It is located in Santa Cruz,Argentina beside these paintings of hands there is also cave paintings of human beings, rheas and felines with that there are images of zigzag patterns that represent the sun and images of hunting scenes. paintings a lot alike are found very near this cave.

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The image of hands on a cave wall have been dated for around 550BC. Most of these hands are left which tells us that the painter held the spray pipe in there right hand or the dexterous hand. Most of the hands are the size of a 13 year old boy some think that they stamped there hand as a sign there were moving into adult hood.

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Cave painting in Australia

Early cave paintings have been found Kakadu. They sometimes used ochre for their cave paintings. The aboriginal artists used ochre and many other materials like Kimberley. Ochre is not an organic material  so it makes it hard to date and near impossible through carbon dating.
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The picture to the right is  an image of cave paintings like the cave painting found in centre of the Arnhem Land plateau. These cave paintings have been shown to be useful  on finding out species that are now extinct. An example of this is an emu like bird with a stretched out neck which has been discovered. It showed that it had become extinct over 40,000 years ago.
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The Whitsunday Islands also have many cave paintings. These are by the seafaring Ngaro people on Hook Island, Australia. These do not have abstract and figurative content which is a mystery.

The video above is about Australia's cave art and how the aboriginal people have shown how they believed the world was created through the rock art. It was called The Dream Time   It also shows other paintings and the meanings.
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What is cave art?

Cave art is painting on cave walls they are found all around the world. They are very old forms of history the oldest dates back to 40,000 years ago in Aurignacian period. They have been used a lot around the world but still the reason for them is still unknown. Yet the think them may have just been a decoration. The paintings are located in caves that are not easily accessible. Cave art can be seen all over a cave on the ceiling and walls. Some think cave paining was used to communicate or tell stories with others.

Introduction

Hi, my name is Jessica and I am writing this blog about the geography of cave painting. The reason I am writing this blog is because I have had an interest in art my whole life yet never looked into cave painting. I would like to learn more about this topic.

Each of my posts will be on cave painting and how they are different all over the world. I will also look into the meaning of the different cave paintings, our earliest recording of history.

 

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