Question

'Cave paintings are a source of information about the
early human life'. Substantiate.​

Answer 1

Answer:Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production: In the Gabarnmung cave of northern Australia, the oldest paintings certainly predate 28,000 years ago, while the most recent ones were made less than a century ago.[3]

The oldest known cave paintings are over 40,000 years old (art of the Upper Paleolithic), found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia). The oldest type of cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes; the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave paintings are somewhat younger, close to 35,000 years old.[4] A 2018 study claimed an age of 64,000 years for the oldest examples of (non-figurative) cave art in Iberia, which would imply production by Neanderthals rather than modern humans.[5] In November 2018, scientists reported the discovery of the oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an unknown animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the Indonesian island of Borneo.[

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:(i) The tradition of writing a historical narrative  

was not prevalent1

in the ancient societies of the  

world.

(ii) Ancient people also felt the need of passing on  

the stories of the life and valour of their ancestors  

to the next generation.

(iii) They used various means like cave paintings,  

story telling, singing songs and ballads, etc. for  

the purpose.

(iv) So these traditional means are looked upon as the  

sources of history in the modern historiography