
Here we have our most famous Cro magnon Phecion wearing a warm sash. Complements of the animal Phecion killed. He could wear this spectacular sash either over his shoulder, as a cape, or as a skirt. Watch as he works it.


Here we have our most famous Cro magnon Phecion wearing a warm sash. Complements of the animal Phecion killed. He could wear this spectacular sash either over his shoulder, as a cape, or as a skirt. Watch as he works it.

The First Paintings were found in the Lascaux Cave, which was located in The Lascaux Wood in France, the paintings were discovered by some boys that were hunting and they came upon a hole in the ground that seemed to be the opening to a large cave so they later went back to the cave to see what was down there and they found paintings of large animals such as Deer, Bulls Oxen, Horses, and Rhinoceros. One of the paintings even showed a Bison getting killed by a spear.
There was a lot of work to be done to make their paintings look like what they look like. First of all they had to crawl into the caves with their animal fat light, which had to smell and be hard! Then they had to make the color and how they did that was they put red, brown, and yellow orches of iron but they also added the black from charcoal, they also sometimes used animal fat. To make brushes they took sticks and roughened the ends. That would be one method they also sometimes sprayed the paintings on.
The paintings started with the Cro-Magnon which are Homo Sapiens who lived in Europe 40,000 years ago. The paintings were mainly of animals and how they were hunted.


The painters of these Lascaux Caves had many different techniques. Some of those techniques are that they would crawl on their hands and knees so they could go far into the cave to paint. To give the paintings dimension they would paint where the cave were not smooth. They would also use the techinques of gradation of value which is the slow transition between opposites, which is also known as the value between light and dark. How this is shown is through shading. The paintings were of different animals such as bulls, horses, bison, reindeer, and other wild animals. They would be outlined with charcoal and the painters would use yellows, reds, browns, and oranges. Another Technique they used was that they would use animal fat for lighting when they are crawling into the cave, and to see what they are painting on.
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, because they weren't language capeable until the Neanderthals came along and even then they really didnt know much language.



The Homo Erectus did not carry around spears.

