While writing our
history book of human civilization what if we have to leave the very first page blank? Coins, architecture, ancient writings and epics all these helps us to draw story lines around them those lead us to write history related to them. But what about the history of prehistoric people those were wandering in jungles struggling for the survival of human race. How could we come to know what type of life they were living? What were their challenges? their problems, the vegetation known to them, species of birds and animals, their myths their ideologies, all this is as important as important is the pharos of Egypt or Mayacean people.
Rock paintings answer all these questions. Rock art all around the world provides us an opportunity to know about our
primitives. They were unknown to the writing art, were dependent on natural habitats so how could they leave their history for us. But rock paintings did it very well These paintings were the favorite time passes for our primitives but these are now not less than precious treasure for us as these paintings gives us reflection of the starting period of our civilization. These rock galleries are the depicted features of stone and Iron Age people. Rock paintings basically can be divided in to two categories pictographs and petroglyph. Pictographs are paintings done with
white or red ochre and petroglyph are the one chiseled out on rock surface these prehistoric paintings were made with red or white ochre or white kaolin. They might have used some animal fat or vegetable juice as binding agent. These paintings are made since upper Paleolithic age. Rock art of Lascaux France is one of the oldest in this genus. Hall of bulls, which is the most fascinating feature of this cave rock art, is an engraved symbol to prove this cave a sacred
place for those using it. It seems they were using this place for some religious rite. Rock paintings of Bhimbetka Madhya Pradesh India depicts group dances, war scenes and some figures of animals, sexual organs and the most fascinating of all is the
Painting of large breasts of which fountain of milk was coming out of them, this painting must have done to glorify the women. Two life-sized giraffe in sand stone paintings of Sahara tells us about the green and fertile past of this vast desert. Rock paintings of Val Camonica dated back to 10,000B.C, features agriculture, war magic, but in some paintings figures are similar to those of astronauts. It seems primitives of this place were witness of some alien’s visits to their land. This also supports the realism of UFO stories. These rock paintings are not only paintings these are the footprints of our primitives those holding our hand lead us to that part of our story where we the human were accepting the real challenges of nature with bare bodies. Its not that easy to understand the stories of these paintings we have to do with our intellects and imaginations to thread the pearls in the form of these painting, so that we can obtain a necklace of ancient history. not less than a time machine this rock art take us to the journey of past where our imaginations couldn’t ever reach without this heritage. And above all these help us to write fist pages of our history book.
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