PRE-HISTORIC ART/CAVE ART/PARIETAL ART

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The word 'PRE'in its own, means Before or Earlier while the adjective 'HISTORIC' Is a derivative of the noun History, which refers to past events.
u  Prehistoric art is also refer to as Parietal art, which is the archeological term for works done on cave walls or large blocks of stone.
   However, Art activities could be traced back to the Early man, who wrote and drew on cave walls, rock surfaces, wood and hides in about 11000-12000BC. Early man used different techniques to represent images on such surfaces eg: scratching, engraving, incised drawings or ‘graffiti’ and painting.  The paintings were carried out with earth colours - red, yellow, black and the white of chalk, mixed with animal fat to form a kind of oil paint. Others were done with sharp and hard tools (probably hunting and farming implements). 
                Cave art was basically done for:
                                i.  magical purpose
                                ii.  as Objects of worship and
                                iii. for Attracting animals, which are
               subsequently killed.
     iv. for decoration purpose
                 Such art were discovered at Altamira in Northern Spain, Lascaux Cave in Southern France,Tassili and Tibesli, Plateau between Southeastern Algeria and Western Libya.
 u  However, period of prehistoric art sporadically spread over five phases commonly referred to as stone ages. They are as follows
-  Paleolithic age - old stone age (35,000 years B.C)
- Mesolithic age - middle stone age (25,000 years B.C)
- Neolithic age – New stone age (12,000 years B.C)
- Bronze age – modern age (4000 years B.C)
-  Iron age – modern inventions (2000 years B.C)

Credit; Cave painting - Wikipedia

Abiola, M.S

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