1. Cave Art (15,000 BCE)

3. Theory #1: Artist’s Canvas People of prehistoric times were excellent big- game hunters Did not need to work very hard and had plenty of leisure time Art during this time may have been a teaching tool for kids to learn lessons about the hunt

6. Theory #2: Sympathetic Magic Sympathetic Magic: making an image of something gives the artist power over whatever the image represents Drawing animals with arrows in their side or incomplete animals could create real wounded or weakened animals

9. Theory #3: Vision Quest Shaman: communicates with and interprets the supernatural – Dark, silence, isolation – Hallucinogenic drugs – Pain Cave art was a portal to the supernatural world

12. Cave of Beasts (Gilf Kebir, Egypt)