Essays on Rock Art

Rock Art and Human Culture

Koonalda cave is located in the southern part of Australia in the Nullarbor Plains. This locations is a significant study into human cultures in the prehistory periods, while it highlights the different associations essential to influence human development through art and cultural. The Koonalda Cave supports and helps the archeology community in Australia to relate the importance of the cave to the Mirning people. It is value is located and shared among its features of art and drawings or curving on the walls of the cave. It is through research that the community used the cave for art and ...

The rock artists of Australia were drawing the dreamtime long before they had a word for art or long before the first Westerner arrived there. The dreamtime for the indigenous people of Australia is their story of creation. Their beliefs are reflected in the ancient paintings on rock. The aboriginal are believed to have occupied Australia for at least forty thousand or even maybe hundred thousand years, which makes them the “oldest continuous human culture on the planet” (Rock Art). Their art is a primitive history book and guide for living (Rock Art). Seasons played crucial role in their lives; that ...

While constructing a road in southern England, road builders’ retrieved remains of what was later established by archaeologists to be 51 Vikings who were mass buried dating back 1000 AD. Based on the archaeological evidences, it is believed that the Vikings mostly teens in their ealy 20s were beheaded in front of spectators (Quinn 2010). Further reports stated that, they came from Scandinavia with one man travelling from north of the Arctic Circle. Archaeologists believe that these is the biggest mass grave of foreigners ever found in Britain, it is further believed that these Vikings were executed by local Anglo-Saxons ...

Article Review

New additional clues have been discovered that reignites the proposed relationship between human beings and their closest relatives, the apes (Popular Archaeology 2013). Researchers, Frans de Waal, PhD and Zanna Clay, PhD both from the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Emory University have postulated the theory supporting the linkage. From their recent study of the bonobo primates in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a sanctuary near Kinshasa, striking similarities between the emotional development of the bonobos and children were observed. From the results of the study, it became evident that the great apes had a ...

Introduction

There has been a renewed interest with the indigenous tourism recently. In Australia, it is one of the most thriving tourism sector and attraction at present. This is because Australia is home to one of the world’s historic living cultures and so, it is well placed to develop this global tourism sector (ONT, 1998, p. 2). Indigenous tourism is a general term formerly used to pertain to “all tourism services or products, managed by either the Indigenous or the non-indigenous entities but focuses on an indigenous motif such as cultural tours, festivals, arts and crafts making, interpretation of indigenous heritage, ...

1. What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)? Answer: The film is called “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.” Made in 2010, it describes the fabulous Paleolithic rock art in France’s Chavet Cave, including its location, description, and possible scientific and cultural significance.

2. Why did you choose this documentary to view? What did you expect to learn or experience from this film? Answer: I chose this film because of its title. I have always been fascinated with dreams and dreaming, and I thought I might learn more about ...