cave painting

collocation in English

meaningsofcaveandpainting

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cave
noun[C]
uk
/keɪv/us
/keɪv/
a large hole in the side of a hill, cliff, or mountain, or one that ...
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painting
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪn.tɪŋ/us
/ˈpeɪn.t̬ɪŋ/
a picture made ...
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Acavepaintingtells us, surely, far more than the simple appearance of a bison or deer.
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This was followed by a sudden flowering of fine toolmaking, sophisticated weaponry, sculpture,cavepainting, body ornaments, and long-distance trade.
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The group discovers acavepaintingand climbing equipment from a previous visitor, suggesting a second exit exists.
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They housecavepaintingand carving which can be dated back to 1,500 years ago.
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Amongst the earliest arecavepainting, runic alphabets and ideograms.
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A third type ofcavepaintingart, are geoglyphs, thus far has not been detected in the region.
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He identified the symbols, signs, and figures ofcavepaintingas components of a valid archaic pictorial language that he used in his works.
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Human record-keeping arguably dates back to thecavepaintingboom of the upper paleolithic, some 32,000-40,000 years ago.
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This site has more than 18 sets ofcavepaintingof which only six may be visited.
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Cavepaintingand rock carvings used simple visual elements that may have aided in recognizing landscape features, such as hills or dwellings.
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They also valued artistic endeavors, such ascavepaintingand rock carving, some of which have survived to the present.
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The northeasterncavepaintingart covers two types of manifestations; rock engravings, also called petroglyphs, and cave paintings (pictogram or pictograph).
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Neandertal societies had pooled funerary rites andcavepaintingwhich implies at least a notion of shared assets that could be spent for social purposes, or preserved for social purposes.
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These things are understood to have occurred, but they are regarded in the same way as cave paintings or petroglyphs are regarded : as artifacts from a former culture.
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Magalios bases all of his work and thought on the ground palette, a concept and form he has developed from his research into pre-historiccavepainting.
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In those days, man's relationship to the animal world, as represented by those cave paintings, was such that he did not despise the animal kingdom.
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This feeling of the hunter for the hunted is illustrated in the cave paintings.
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Besides its enormous wealth in beautiful stalactites, stalagmites and similar calcite deposits it contains cave paintings and some engravings.
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This nding lends support to hypotheses arguing that cave paintings might have contained less of a symbolic or transcendental connotation than often assumed.
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However, as early as 30,000 years ago, mica flakes were used to give cave paintings a glittering appearance.
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