paleolithic art including cave art and portable art began during the upper palaeolithic period.
paleolithic art including cave art and portable art began during the upper palaeolithic period.
paleolithic art including cave art and portable art began during what period?
upper palaeolithic
other fine examples of art from the upper palaeolithic (broadly 40,000 to 10,000 years ago) includes: cave painting (such as at chauvet, lascaux, altamira, cosquer, and pech merle), incised / engraved cave art such as at creswell crags, portable art (such as animal carvings and sculptures like the venus of willendorf), and open-air art (such as the rock art of the côa valley and in portugal; domingo garcía and siega verde in spain; and in france). there are numerous carved or engraved pieces of bone and ivory, such as the swimming reindeer found in france from the magdalenian period. these include spear throwers, including one shaped like a mammoth, and many of the type of objects called a bâton de commandement.
art of the upper paleolithic
paleolithic art developed in the levant. in the upper paleolithic, the best-known and most comprehensive assortment of art are the cave paintings of the iberian peninsula. in the valencian community, various caves contain this type of paleolithic art, including the cova fosca, cova de reinós, abric d'en melia, and the parpalló and meravelles caves.









































however, the predominate paleolithic art form in valencia is portable art, that is, artistic objects that may be transported. parpalló is exemplary of this type of art, holding a large number of decorated platelets bearing images of darts, awls, and harpoons.
prehistory of the valencian community