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Sources: 1 appropriate, scholarly source for each body paragraph, properly cited in the body paragraphs (in-text citation), Works Cited page that includes all sources in M L A. 9 points
Introduction: Includes title or description of artwork, culture of origin with approximate date, museum or current physical location, category of the artwork (what was its physical purpose when created?), your explanation of power and how this object exhibits or relates to power in some way, thesis sentence LAST sentence in paragraph. 10 points
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essay:
Cave Paintings of Altamira
Found in Northern Spain near the village of Antillana del Mar in 1868 by a hunter named Modesto Peres who was actually just looking for his lost dog. These cave paintings are one of seventeen different cave units around the Northern Spanish area. We have found over 100 different cave paintings, rock engravings, and drawings within the vast caverns on-site stretching 270 meters long. These are some of the most important pieces of artwork to ever be created because this is our starting point. This is where we began. Unfortunately when first discovered, little was made note of the new findings. It wasn’t until a nobleman by the very long name of Marcelio Sanz de Sautuola and archeologist Juan Vilanova y Piera studied these cave paintings back in 1879 that people started to look into the paintings. The two wrote a report on their findings and at first it faced criticism from other experts. Fortunately after copies of the paintings started to be passed along through the community did not only the historical community understand the gravity of these findings but the rest of the world as well. Altamira was soon to become of the world’s largest exhibits of prehistoric art. The prehistoric aspect of this art is truely what makes it so special. To know that for thousands of years we have always found a way to express ourselves through art and similar mediums is comforting in a way. Humanity was still in its infancy when all of this happened and 2 the creativity and ingenuity that these people show is astonishing in where they created these paintings, the mediums in which they used and the realism within these art pieces goes to show that while we have progressed from crushing berries to digital art, there is always a piece of our roots that still shows to this day. What is truely asstounding is when dating the artwork came into play. At first french scientists Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Annette Laming used what is called carbon 14 dating or radiocarbon dating where they study the rate of decay from carbon to nitrogen to estimate when an organism either died or was created. When doing this they found that two of the cave paintings dated back to between 15,000 BCE and 12,000 BCE during the Magdalenian period. Then in 2004 researchered studied the cave rock itself, taking samples from the floor, and dated those to be between 12,000 BCE and 13,500 BCE, also in the Magdalenian period and two more paintings were found to have been created between 15,200 BCE and 17,630 BCE. And again when dating studies began again an 8th level was detected and dated all the way back to the Gravettian period around 20,000 BCE. Then in 2008 british scientists used a different dating strategy using the Uranium/Thorium (U/Th) method, which is similar to carbon dating but is using different elements. With this new method they were about to determine that other artworks were able to be dated back to be between 23,000 BCE and 33,000 BCE. And most recently in 2012 they were able to date a painting back to 34,000 BCE. What is most amazing about these findings is that there is clearly a generational retelling of these people. With different paintings having different dates we know that they were not all created at the same time, meaning that there was a 3 stationary civilization here or that generation after generation the same tribe was coming back to these caves and painting their knowledge for the future generations to find and learn from. To conclude the findings, it is apparent that when looked at closely these paintings are some of the most important pieces of work ever created. Some may argue and say that they aren’t really art or that a child could draw them. That though is not the point. These early humans, our ancestors were about to find and use the environment around them to inivativly make and use as paint to make and teach. Time and time again over who knows just how many generations these people either came back to or never left these cave dwellings and would use art and their environment to teach the younger ones the things they have learned and what the older generations have learned to further them in the world as we do with our children now.
Works Cited “Altamira Cave Paintings: Dating, Layout, Photographs.” Altamira Cave Paintings, www.visual-arts-cork.com/prehistoric/altamira-cave-paintings.htm. Accessed 8 Nov. 2021. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Altamira”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2010, https://www.britannica.com/place/Altamira. Accessed 7 November 2021. “Did Humans Make These Ancient Cave Paintings? | National Geographic.” YouTube, 30 Dec. 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUNODUpkT2o. Kleiner, Fred. Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Concise Global History. 4th ed., Cengage Learning, 2016.
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