What did we learn from prehistoric cave images?

Many hundreds of caves, only 350 in Spain and France, have prehistoric works of art from about 1200 to 34,000 years. The purpose of these cave images is not known exactly. Many attribute religious or spiritual meaning to them, but this is just one theory among many. Other interpretations claim that cave images were ways to transmit information to others or just art for themselves. Many cave paintings are deep in the caves, but it is unlikely that these images would be for explicit display purposes. The arguments of modern natives in Australia suggest that indigenous painting is done for various reasons: mainly for magic against people or animals or records. Numerous artistic traces of human hands and artistic line drawings of the follow -up stern were discovered, called "Finger Flutings". These mysterious fingers are usually performed on the surface of the lunar Milk, white cheese limestone clots composed of carbonate minerals in various stages of crystals. Moonmilk is found only inCaves.

Mostly cave paintings tell us what we already know - that in Africa, Europe and Australia, modern people were tens of thousands of years ago, and these people were sufficiently sophisticated to practice a work of art. This finding is confirmed by the discovery of many relics that do not start to paint, such as Flint, statues and carved animal bones. The cave images confirm that the existence of animals has now completely extinct - such as Auroch or animals disappearing to a given extent, such as the European bison (which has disappeared in most Western Europe since 2000). The distinctive Lascaux style of the cave painting, which is the most famous, died out about 10,000 years ago, when people in today's France began to accept an agricultural lifestyle and settle in villages.

depiction of reindeer in the Spanish caves supported the hypothesis, confirmed by fossil evidence that reindeer lived in the area at the time of the last major prevention that reachedby the maximum measure 18,000 years ago. At that time, most of the British Isles and Northern Europe were covered with continental glaciers, which make them uninhabitable. Only southern Europe - France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, etc. - were habitable in the region. In fact, most of Europe and Asia have probably forced people who expanded from Africa because of the east where they colonized Southeast Asia and Australia. Some of the earliest evidence of human colonization outside Africa were found in Australia about 50,000 years ago. It is not known why the paintings of the cave over 32,000 years were not found - perhaps humanity has not achieved the necessary levels of cultural or artistic development, so that it has been produced by then, or the areas have not been very populated.