My rock art presentation for sciene I'm 12 Please feel free to use it Maria

1. Cave Painting or Rock Art
What am I going to explain today?

2. When do you think these
painting were done?

3. Why did they paint their walls?
Levante Caves

4. Where can we find these caves in Spain?

5. What is the most famous
Spanish Rock art Cave?

6. What did they paint?

7. Reindeer Painting in Altamira

8. How did they paint the
pictures?

9. Where did the Bison go?

10. what do the symbols mean?

11. How did they manage to paint in such a small space?
Sitting Bison – Altamira Cave (Cantabria - España)

12. How did these paintings survive
the years?

13. This is a map of The Lascaux Caves(France)
Most of the information in this presentation came from the following websiteI:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
Wilkipedia Rock Art

14. Who found the cave?

16. Inside the Lascaux caves.( 15,000-13,000 A.C,)

17. The Hunters
(Dos Aguas - Valencia - Spain

18. Hunting
Scene
Valencia

19. The Moors Rock
Valencia

20. Comparing Rock art
Franco-Cantabric Area Levante Area
• Time: 25.000 - 15.000 años B:C • Time: 6.000 - 1.500 B:C.
(Paleolítico Superior) (Mesolítico y Neolítico).
• Found Inside the caves • Found: In the cave entrance on
the ceiling.
• Theme: Daily life in the tribe
• Theme :Animals and geometric figures
• Técnica: The same.
• Technique: Animal fat and
• natural pigments
• Formal aspects: Colourful and •Formal aspects: Monochrome
• realistic
Interpretation: Story telling
• Interpretation: Possible magic
•sybolism

21. My favourite Rock Painting
Thank you for listening