What reasons for depicting more animal figures than human figures in cave paintings?
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Answer:The most common subjects in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called finger flutings.
Bagh Caves. Some of the most outstanding early Indian cave paintings – and possibly some of the best paintings from this period worldwide – are in Bagh Cave (Madhya Pradesh), caves 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7. These vivid, lively Indian cave paintings were made in the late 4th – 6th century AD.
The earliest discovery of prehistoric rock art was made in India, twelve years before the discovery of Alta Mira in Spain. Archibald Carlleyle discovered rock paintings at Sohagihat in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh in 1867 and 1868.
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Around the world the walls of many caves of this time are full of finely carved and painted pictures of animals which the cave-dwellers hunted. The subjects of their drawings were human figures, human activities, geometric designs and symbols. In India the earliest paintings have been reported from the Upper Palaeolithic times.