The Lascaux Prehistory Of Art

[lovesangels]

Many paintings were renderings of Shamanistic visions, which all humans seem to share whilst under altered conscienceness

[TheTarguia]

Hi there! Amazing video thanks a lot for sharing it!!!:)...i've been reading the comments left by some people...expressing opinions is great but being a hateful person is disgusting! instead of to waste your time swearing the others try to be better yourself & learn something useful!

[xXxMistywolfxXx]

thanx for downloading this it helped on my social studies project

[misterusufruct]

A desire to feel connected to the other animals isn't necessarily evidence of religiosity. In fact, looking at religion from our modern perspective, one could make the point that religion tends to alienate us from the natural world. The painters of these caves apparently took the time to study and marvel over the natural world around them. I am not religious but I still sometimes wish I was a bird.

[Interactivesystems]

@misterusufruct religiosity is hardwired, it was probably selected for. your mythlogising these people. besides all the evidence... why youd think unlike all other people in history they werent superstitious? its statistically unlikely.

[xtrmsprts]

if only this wasn't in france i'd feel more comfortable and appreciative. fuckin french bastards, lol

[jen8933]

@xtrmsprts

there's lot in our hands too. in kentucky developers regularly bulldoze indian mounds for fill dirt. course sometimes if there is something of possible value they loot it after they destroy it. a relative of a friend was once operating an end loader to load dumptrucks with 'dirt'. while he waited for the truck he spotted something that caught the sun...a pipe carved like a bird...from stone that is not native to the area. stories of my ancestors now make someones backyard.

[MooDMR]

sweeetneess

[alpacks]

the great french history ...

the longuest man presence history in the world

[nalanuss]

The great french history? This has nothing to do with France and these people were not french! They only happened to live in a rich area at the time of the later part of the Iceage.

[patnais102]

Why don't you shut up? Every country claim archeological site as their own, why France should act differently? What do you know about the people who made these painting? Some might be the ancestor of the celt who lived in France.There are some 25 000 years old petroglyph in Ukraine and the Kozak there see these sites as their rightful heritage and I agree with them. Ziggurat do not belong to the Iranian?Pyramid do not belong to the Egyptian?

[patnais102]

The people who made the pyramid have nothing in common with today's Egyptian but we don't piss them off with their heritage. Lascaux is part of the french heritage , sorry if you got nothing to beat it in Finland and it make you sad.

[nalanuss]

I think the Lascaux caves, the pyramids and other ancient sites are of a worldly heritage that everyone can relate to, not just the people who happen to live there at the moment. Therefore I cant see why this is "the great french history", more the european peoples history.

[nalanuss]

And interestingly.. According to DNA findings it has been discovered that Finns, or the finno-ugric people, are the closest related to the cro-magnon, the ice-age man, comparing to the rest of Europe, including France!

[patnais102]

Sure because the northern countries are more isolated there was less genetic mix. Just like the Indian in isolated village have similar DNA to the one found on 9000 years old remain. Does it mean the archeological sites in Lahor are indian? No they are pakistanese. I do not disagree with what you are saying but reality and human society are 2 different things and in the human society the Lascaux cave are french.

[patnais102]

In the human society we definite nationality by the geographic position of things basically , it make the Lascaux cave a french site.People who made these painting were living in what's today France so it make them french. Reality is way more complex of course but we live in the human society.

[patnais102]

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[TwoOpposableThumbsUp]

Hi kjgear, as a non-religious person I found the commentator a little annoying in the fact that he kept on bringing up just how religious these ancient people were. We know very little about them other than the obvious fact that they painted beautiful images of reality and their day to day existence.

They were not mystical people at all and theres nothing in these images to say that they were . . . as opposed to us modern humans.

Amazing images though!

[kjgear]

The commentator was only speculating on the meaning and purpose of the paintings based on archaeological evidence and what we have gleaned from the descendants of Paleolithic societies, such as Bushmen and natives of the Americas.

What makes you believe they were not mystical people? What about the half human/bird and half human/lion paintings? And the ritual burial of humans (which is much older than Lascaux) is a form of religion, no?

[ChicagoCubs1060]

i'm no scientist by any means but i believe these people most certainly were religious. back then everyone was looking for a answer to who created them, how they came to be, explanations for why things have happened. they didn't have scientists studying bone fragments or rock sediment. they had gods, like native americans. in today's society it's way too easy to not believe in a higher power, a "creator". i firmly believe that these people were religious.

[NessaSilverwolf]

@kjgear In our history we tend to consider religious object any object we don't understand.

I remember a story read some time ago, with somebody from future who discover archaeological proof of our culture. And, because we use so many things that will be destroyed in time, he concluded that we were a primitive civilisation who worship a water deity, because in every house it was a shrine of it: the bathroom... We simple don't know if they were mystics or not.

[Interactivesystems]

@NessaSilverwolf why think unlike all other people in history they werent superstitious? its statistically unlikely.

youre creating bs mythology....evolution replaced religious creation stories...all cultures have creation stories... so yes they were clearly religious in that sense...

[mommameatball1]

@kjgear hi im doing a research report on the Lascaux history. and would like to site this source in my bibliography. can you tell me the director of this short film? Thanks

[SakuraAbridgedSakura]

@mommameatball1 Hi, can you be so kind as to tell me if you ever got a response from the user since I too am doing an essay on the rhino and the man painting and would like to know the director and narrator. This would help me a great deal since this is due on Thursday an its Tuesday >( If you can, please let me know as soon as you can, thankyou so much.

[mommameatball1]

@kjgear hi im doing a research report on the Lascaux history. and would like to site this source in my bibliography. can you tell me the director of this short film? Thanks

[Beadbud5000]

I can understand how you feel. Realize that the intellectual hypotheses of basing anything outside of a religious context are a relatively new way of viewing things for almost all cultures. Think of it as post 19th century thought. Prior to, in both Western & Eastern cultures, science grew out of religiousity. Just a perspective here.

[RobDeManc]

They probably did not have religion in the modern sense. But I reckon they had a strong sense of spriritualism.  Life would have been a greater mystery to them than it is to us now. But yeah the narator got on my nerves a bit!

[colourmegone]

@TwoOpposableThumbsUp If you really believe that stone age peoples weren't 'mystical' you know nothing of archaeology or anthropology. Belief in gods or spirits is common throughout almost all human cultures. Stone age tribes extant today worship them just as people did thousands of years ago. Do you REALLY believe that human beings have only religion because they've become corrupted by modern times?

[peskylisa]

This reminds me of Jean M Auel's novel "The Shelters in Stone" I think she did, in fact, research this particular area when she wrote that book

[vikingskipdotcom]

Brilliant footage and good comments. Thanks!

[rebisdead]

amazing pre-historic art - makes you feel truly connected to our ancestors