![]() ![]() The most elaborate paintings are deep inside the dark recesses of the cave system. It’s possible that prehistoric shamans invoked the spirits of these animals through paintings, hoping to harness their power for rituals and rites of passage. One theory is that they actually represent shamanistic shapeshifters. These depictions in particular have a strange quality, with some anthropomorphic and distorted features among the lions. According to prehistorians, lions were symbols of power accorded a higher status than other mammals. Many panels have processions of animals, such as horses, rhinos, and, my favorite, the cave lions. Discovered in 1994, the walls are covered in hundreds of charcoal animals paintings, depicting over 13 different species from the Upper Paleolithic period. The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeast France is home to some of the best preserved figurative cave paintings in the world. Her tomb was preserved in the tundra ice so well that her burial meal had laid intact for over 24 centuries, including a small bowl of yogurt.Ĭhauvet Cave Lions, 33k Years Before Present The mummy, a woman interred with many artifacts and six sacrificed horses, was a person of great importance, possibly a shaman or a story-teller. ![]() The most famous piece of Scythian art was discovered in 1993, when archeologist Natalia Polosmak unearthed the tomb of a mummy in Altai, Russia. Having no written legacy of their own, Scythian art is one of the few ways to try to understand this culture directly. Scythians were contemporaries of the ancient Greeks and written accounts of their existence mainly come from the Greek historian Herodotus. The Pazyryk tribe was a sub-group of the larger nomadic Scythian culture that lived on the Eurasian steppes from the 6th century BCE- 2th century BCE. My first tattoo pays homage not just to the culture to whom it belongs, but also the incredible, often mystical power ink on our skin has held for thousands of years. Tattooing itself is a form of ancient art, much older then most people realize. ![]()
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