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Prehistoric cave painting of animals at Albarracín, Teruel, Spain (rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin) Cave artists use a variety of techniques such as finger tracing, modeling in clay, engravings, bas-relief sculpture, hand stencils, and paintings done in two or three colors. Scholars classify cave art as "Signs" or abstract marks.
Charcoal was often a key component of cave painting, with examples dating back to at least 28,000 years ago. [11] One of the oldest charcoal paintings is a picture of a zebra, found at the Apollo cave in Namibia. [12] [page needed]
Upper Paleolithic sites of the Near East, such as the Hayonim Cave, a cave located in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above modern sea level, in the Upper Galilee, Israel, have wall carvings depicting symbolic shapes and animals, such as a running horse dated to the Levantine Aurignacian circa 28000 BP, and visible in the Israel Museum.
The cave shelters have elaborate and colorful Rock art, all in a typical Chumash style. However, the rock art at the shelters displays more colors and is more complex than at any other Chumash site. [3] Limited work continues to be done at this site due to deterioration. Swordfish cave is on the land now occupied by Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [2]
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The Cave of Maltravieso in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, was discovered in 1951. It shows traces of human occupation from the Middle Paleolithic . It contains cave art , most notably a total of 71 hand stencils , enumerated in the 1990s using ultraviolet photography, [ 1 ] but also linear designs and some animal paintings.
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