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Animal Rights-Humane History Timeline: Antiquity » Medieval » Renaissance » Enlightenment » Romantic Age » Victorian Age » Early 20th c. | ||
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Animal Rights History Timeline » [BCE-CE] Antiquity » Cave Paintings-Paleolitic Art | |
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Cosquer Cave[ca 25,000 and 17,0000 BCE] The Cosquer Cave (ca25,000 and 17,000 bce) contains a large number of drawings depicting various land animals: horses, bison, aurochs, ibex and chamois, various members of the cervidae family, a feline, and some as yet unidentified animals.…Marine animals…rarely found in decorated caves from the Paleolithic era make up a significant portion of the overall number of figures. Drawn or engraved in the rock were penguins, seals, fish, and various figures that may stand for jelly-fish or octopuses. (French Ministry of Culture, "Cosquer Cave") "The animals most often represented are the horses (63) sometimes entire, at other times with just their heads, then the ibex (28), the bison and aurochs (24) and the red deer (15) i.e. stags and does. The other animals are far more rare: 4 chamois, 2 megaloceros deer, 1 feline, 1 saiga antelope. Sea animals are fairly common (17), far more than in any other cave: 9 seals, 4 fish, 3 auks. We can add 20 animal figures that could not be identified precisely and 3 composite animals (i.e. with characteristics pertaining to different species)." (Jean Clottes, Cosquer Cave, Bradshaw Foundation). | ||||||||
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Animal Rights History Timeline: Classical Antiquity Common Era; Early Church Fathers [CE-485]  Cave paintings of 15,000-30,000 years ago are almost entirely of animals and the artists rarely portrayed the animals as being hunted or eaten. (Richard Ryder, Animal Revolution, "The Ancient World"). Paleolithic art, from beginning to end, is an art of animals.—Jean Clottes, "Paleolithic Art-France"
[30-28,000 BCE] Chauvet Cave Clay modellings in Montespan and Le Tuc d' Audoubert…caves are famous: Montespan because of a clay bear which is a real statue, nearly lifesize, and Le Tuc d'Audoubert because of two extraordinary bison following each other in a premating scene. European Ice Age rock art, often called 'cave art', is well-known all over the world, probably because of the high quality and antiquity of its images. So far, about 350 sites have been discovered, from the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula to the Urals.…When the Abbe Breuil published his big book "Four Hundred Centuries of Cave Art", he pointed out what he called 'The Six Giants', one in Spain (Altamira), the other five in France: Lascaux, Niaux, Les Trois-Freres, Font-de-Gaume and Les Combarelles. No doubt that nowadays he would at least add Chauvet, Cosquer, Cussac and Rouffignac to the list. (Jean Clottes, "Paleolithic Art in France," BradshawFoundation.com) |
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