Sentences with phrase «prehistoric humans paint»

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Some of the first research on the importance of acoustics to prehistoric peoples was done by Iegor Reznikoff, an anthropologist of sound at Université Paris Ouest, who in the 1980s visited cave paintings and carvings in southern France that are about 25,000 years old, among the oldest known human art.

The rock shelter has seen phases of human activity from the Mesolithic to the medieval period, with its prehistoric rock paintings known to be the highest painted representations of animals (quadrupeds) in Europe.

(Cave paintings of crocodiles and giraffes left by prehistoric humans attest to the once savannalike climate.)

The human impetus to create self - prints can be as simple as a child's finger painting, and as poignant and poetic an assertion of one's presence in the world as the stenciled, silhouetted outlines of human hands found in prehistoric cave paintings — both gestures seeming to declare: «I was here.»

Inspired by prehistoric paintings in caves in southern France, Elaine de Kooning's Lascaux Series includes five lithographs that reference the earliest examples of human image - making.