Cave of Forgotten Dreams Response

The drawings in the cave might not seem too astonishing at first, but when you really learn about the history of it all and what it took to create them, it's nothing short of jaw-dropping. A few things amazed me with these pieces of art. Firstly, I had to remember that these drawings were created solely off of memory. Something that we don't have to rely on in this day and age. It's not like the cavemen were able to bring the animals inside the cave to copy off of. The other thing is the fact that they had to rely on using their torches for lighting and possibly even incorporated it into the art by playing around with shadows. This adds such depth to the art that probably isn't utilized in that way anymore. Third is the fact that is evidence that shows that the drawings could have been drawn up to 5,000 years apart. The resulting pieces of art that we are now examining would not have been as beautiful as they are without the layering of drawings. To think that it's the result of literal millennia apart is like nothing I've ever seen before. It's so beautiful to think that these people contributed to each other's art having absolutely no way of communicated with one another. Lastly, the drawings of the horses resembling an animation is something so ahead of its time that it almost hurts my brain to think about. I feel like as people living in the 2000's, we like to believe that cavemen weren't exactly the most intelligent humans, but things like this prove to me that they knew a lot more than we think they did.