write down the main features of prehistoric rock art
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Prehistory: The time period in the past when there was no paper or the written word and hence no books or written accounts of events. Information about such an age is obtained from excavations which reveal paintings, pottery, habitat, etc.
Drawings and paintings were the oldest form of artistic expression practised by humans. Reasons for such drawings: Either to decorate their homes or/and to keep a journal of events in their lives.
Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods have not shown any evidence of artworks so far. The Upper Palaeolithic Age shows a lot of artistic activities.
Earliest paintings in India are from the Upper Palaeolithic Age.
The first discovery of rock paintings in the world was made in India by archaeologist Archibald Carlleyle in 1867 – 68 (in Sohagighat, Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh).
Rock paintings have been found in the walls of caves at Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Karnataka, some in the Kumaon Hills of Uttarakhand.
Paintings at the rock shelters at Lakhudiyar on the banks of the Suyal River (Uttarakhand) –
3 categories of paintings: man, animal and geometric patterns in black, white and red ochre.
Humans in stick-like forms, a long-snouted animal, a fox, a multiple-legged lizard, wavy lines, groups of dots and rectangle-filled geometric designs, hand-linked dancing humans.
Paintings in Kupgallu (Telangana), Piklihal and Tekkalkota (both in Karnataka)
Mostly in white and red ochre.
Subjects are bulls, sambhars, elephants, sheep, gazelles, goats, horses, stylised humans and tridents.
Paintings in the Vindhya ranges at Madhya Pradesh extending into Uttar Pradesh –
About 500 rock shelters at Bhimbetka in the Vindhya Hills at Madhya Pradesh.
Images of hunting, dancing, music, elephant and horse riders, honey collection, animal fighting, decoration of bodies, household scenes, etc.
Bhimbetka drawings can be categorised into 7 Periods.
Period I: Upper Palaeolithic
Period II: Mesolithic
Period III: Chalcolithic
Two major sites of prehistoric rock/cave paintings in India: Bhimbetka Caves and Jogimara Caves (Amarnath, Madhya Pradesh).
Answer: Pre historic art the art when there was no other form of expressions to communicate.
Explanation:
What is prehistoric rock art?
It refers to art made by people to express in the past time as there were not proper languages to communicate so they draw images and stuff to tell people about their lives or to record anything.
Characteristics of prehistoric rock art?
- Time of upper Paleolithic age shows the art made in India about the past lives of the people in India.
- There were many paintings found in the regions of India like in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, in regions of Karnataka and Kerala.
- The paintings found were mainly in red ochre color and consists of mainly animals in their pictures drawn.
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