Chauvet's Caves

Chauvet's Caves

It's interesting that the drawings of certain animals were adapted with the natural curves of the rocks and calcite formations. It makes me ask the question of how well did these people adapt to their surroundings, outside of drawings?

Their drawings are really good for using charcoal and ticks.

The animals shown running the same direction makes me wonder if the people in the very back of the cave running from something too? That is, unless the animals are just running. In my very limited knowledge of animals, I don't remember, historically, seeing all different kinds of animals running together like that, except in some circumstance of natural disasters, such as fire or flooding.

First the question of why people felt inclined to draw on wall and express their surroundings in the first place. After reading about the cave and its zoomed-up artwork, it was really cool to see, afterwards, the 3-D virtual cave tour that I had not noticed before.

I guess I'm surprised how the paintings stayed mostly intact. I suppose it had to do with being underground, devoid of the elements of the harsh nature that was outside the cave. Did the calcite help to improve the life of the drawings?

I noticed too, if I'm right, that the artwork got better over time. In the second period of the cave's artistic history the drawings and paintings showed increased signs of value and composition. It was cool to see the improvement of the horses, in the drawing of the horses.