Why did cave men paint in walls?

Answer 1

Aboriginals had wall paintings the walls of caves to tell traditional stories and mark that they were there. ==new answer== The picture language is universal. Even foreigners visiting the states recognize the symbology represented in pictures, such as when it is safe to cross at an intersection. The best way to begin to understand this language is to work with your dreams. Use the universal language of mind which is the picture language. Then look at those wall paintings and see what is there.

Answer 2

Australian Aboriginals lived a very primitive and simple life. A life where everything was closely related to the things close at hand. They did not have a complex manufacturing industry as one would expect westerners to have. so the choices they had in colour and texture came from the ground, the plants and the animals around them. the things they made were made about the things around them and done in their own style and in the style of others whose work that they had seen. Today aboriginals have many more resources at their disposal and use them. much of Albert Namatjiras famous works were done in the European style with European material.

Answer 3

Aboriginal stories were mainly painted as rock art because this was the only lasting way that such stories could be recorded. Aborigines had no written language, so all stories were passed down orally or in paintings and dance.

Answer 4

to express feelings and tell stories and also for the same reasons as anyone else

Answer 5

Cave paintings by hunter-gatherer societies are not so different from paintings by other societies in that they are a way of recording history.

Answer 6

mainly to communicate to other people during the time people lived in caves since no spoken language was created in those times, it could also be for pure creativity at times too

Answer 7

to communicate to other cave men

Answer 8

to communicate or tell stories