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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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Rouffignac Cave[ca 11,000 BCE] More than 250 animal figures are scattered in this underground maze, where they were left 140 centuries ago.…At Rouffignac, the dominant theme is the mammoth. The walls and ceilings of this labyrinth bear 154 images of these pachyderms. Despite the enormous prestige this animal has, it was not often depicted by prehistoric artists, who generally preferred to depict horses and bison. As in most cave art, a central theme is surrounded by other objects. This is especially the case on the Great Ceiling, a vortex of 65 assorted animals, the inevitable horses and bison are accompanied by rhinoceros - which are very rare in cave art - and by ibex, as the animals that surround the Grandfather, the most complete mammoth figure in the cave. (Grotte De Rouffignac, "Grotte Préhistorique de Rouffignac") The artistic representations in the cave were mainly executed as engravings or black contour drawings. So far 224 animal representations and 4 human figures have been registered. The animal representations can be subdivided as follows: 158 mammoths, 28 bisons, 15 horses, 12 capricorns, 10 woolly rhinoceros. Additionally there is one single cave bear. Amongst the six animal groups cited the mammoths take on a prominent role. The woolly rhinoceros are also quite common compared to other similar caves where they always appear as an absolute rarity. (Wikipedia, s.v."Rouffignac") | ||||||||
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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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