C. Complete the following fact sheet about the rock shelters in Bhimbetka.
1. Location
2. Date of discovery
3. Discovered by
4. Name derived from
5. Number of rock shelters found
6. Type of art found
7. Description of art found
8. Scenes depicted
9. Period/Age of art
10. Surrounding vegetation
11. Significance today
Answers
Answer:
Location : Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh, India
Date of Discovery: Discovered in 1957
Discovered by: Wakankar
Name derived from: Kincaid
Number of rock shelters found: 700 shelters
Type of art found: prehistoric cave paintings
Description of art found: earliest are about 10,000 years old (c. 8,000 BCE), corresponding to the Indian Mesolithic. These cave paintings show themes such as animals, early evidence of dance and hunting.
Scenes depicted: The scenes depicted are mainly of dancing, playing music, hunting, horse and elephant riding, decorating bodies, and collecting honey. Household scenes too constitute an occasional theme. Animals like tigers, lions, wild boar, elephants, dogs and crocodiles have also been portrayed in the paintings.
Period/Age of art: Cave art, generally, the numerous paintings and engravings found in caves and shelters dating back to the Ice Age (Upper Paleolithic), roughly between 40,000 and 14,000 years ago.
Surrounding vegetation:
Significance today: The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the prehistoric Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life on the Indian subcontinent and evidence of Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times.