Why do you think Early Man first painted oncave walls?

Question

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Answer 1

It was their way of communicating, telling a story, showing things that had happened to them and their tribe.

Answer 2

I believe that they painted on the cave walls because first they SAW images in the shadows... like seeing animals in the stars, or like Da Vinci having his students sit in front of stained walls and IMAGINE faces or scenes in the water streaked walls.

The interesting thing to me about this however is that in order to see these forms, these images in clouds or the shadows on cave walls is that you need the words for what you see. But if you can say, "Look at that running MAMMOTH in the clouds!" Then painting them on the cave walls isn't that far behind, So those cave paintings show a leap forwards in language. In the giant meme of language that has passed alll the way from those first cave painters to these words made with zeros and ones.

Answer 3

He didnt have a canvas and didnt live in a house. He was artistic and wanted to tell stories that would be passed down to others and there were not books or written language.

Answer 4

Many different theories are proposed: as art, as a representation of shamanic rituals, to 'draw' animals towards them (food), and to ward off evil spirits. Nobody knows for sure why they did it.

Answer 5

Because they ran out of paper. Just joking.

Take a look at this:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cave.html