Behaviour of Modern Humans by Palaeolithic Arts

Running head: PALAEOLITHIC ART AND BEHAVIOUR OF MODERN HUMANS
Palaeolithic Art and Behaviour of Modern Humans
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BEHAVIOUR OF MODERN HUMANS BY PALAEOLITHIC ARTS1
Palaeolithic Age, also known as The Old Stone Age particularly refers to the period of
the human history as it is mostly known for the development of the stone tools by the human
beings. It was the period in which the human beings used to hunt together in bands and
survived mainly by gathering plants, fishing, hunting and scavenging birds and animals. It
was also the time during which time the human beings began to draw the images of various
objects on the walls of their caves. These paintings were made with the help of stone tools
and they depicted various objects which those human beings saw for themselves. These
paintings revealed to the about the various activities of the human beings during those times.
These activities showed to the historians about the behaviour of the modern humans, who
have descended from their ancestors of the Palaeolithic Age. Thus, it has been truly stated by
the experts that the Palaeolithic Arts do reveal much about the behaviour of the modern
humans in the society itself.
The purpose of this essay is to determine what does Palaeolithic art tells the
archaeologists and the historians about the behaviour of the modern human beings in
the society itself.
In the essay, itself, the readers will find out about the Palaeolithic arts made by the
ancient humans of the Palaeolithic period and what such paintings inform to the historians
and the archaeologists about the behaviour of the modern humans in the society itself. From
the discoveries of the art made in the caves of Altamira and in other areas, the archaeologists
have concluded that the human beings during the Palaeolithic period used to make an account
of everything they saw by making a drawing of the objects or the animal in the walls of the
caves where they used to live (Cosgrove, 2017). These paintings ranged from various types
varied from the animals or the plants which they hunted, the various rituals or the practices
which they used to practice, as well as the various God and the supernatural beings which
they used to believe and worship in. The main types of the paintings which the human beings

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used to work during the Upper Palaeolithic period included paintings and sculptures of the
cave paintings, Venus figurines, rock paintings, cave paintings as well as the animal carvings
and the rock paintings of the animals and birds of the animals and the other objects which
they used to see around them in their everyday lives. Other paintings which have been
discovered at the caves of Altamira in Spain and in other caves around the word includes the
symbols of the images and the objects. Apart from this, the Venus figurines which they used
to make were the figures of various Gods and Goddesses as well as the shamanic figures and
the pornographic figures which they used to make (Langley, 2018). These points reveal to the
readers about the various kinds of paintings which they used to make in their days in the
walls of the caves and the rocks as well as other surfaces which they used to make. Thus, it
can be said that the ancient human beings of the Palaeolithic period were quite expert painters
compared to their time.
It is from these paintings made by the ancient human beings of the Palaeolithic period
that the archaeologists and the historians have begun to make guesses about what the
Palaeolithic art forms tell the audience about the behaviour of the human beings in the
modern time-period. In the Palaeolithic Age, it has been found that the ancient humans who
made all the paintings had the common traits as the behaviour of the modern human beings.
This fact is supported by the statement that the ancient human beings behaved in a quite
similar manner. For example, these paintings tell the readers about the fact that the needs and
the demands of the modern human beings are the same as that of the ancient human beings of
the Palaeolithic period. The arts also support the fact that the modern human beings, although
more advanced and have more available resources than the human beings of the Palaeolithic
Age is said to be of the same category as that of the human beings of those times (Starr,
2017).