bhimbetka cave by kalyan s patil
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PRE-HISTORIC PAINTINGS OF INDIA
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Bhimbetka Paintings (Upper Paleolithic Period)
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MESOLITHIC Period
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Early Historic
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Karikkiyur, the largest rock
art site in South India.
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• It looked like an arched dome. The entire natural cavern was painted with rock art. A spectacular feature of the site is that the rock surface is an admixture of ancient rock art and contemporary tribal paintings, showing a continuity of tradition."
• The painted surface is about 40 feet (12 metres) long and 20 feet wide. The images include a tiger, a deer with straight horns, anthropomorphic figures marching inside a circle, an elephant seizing a man with its trunk while another man chased it, and several paintings of a bamboo-ladder used for taking honey from the heights. Contemporary tribal paintings show the profile of a man wearing a headgear and that of another man in a tight-fitting coat with rectangular designs on it. This man has his right hand raised, while his left hand rests on the waist.
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• It had discovered a prehistoric rock art site at
Porivarai (2003), and ancient rock paintings at
Salekkurai and Sundasingam (2005), near
Karikkiyur, about 40 km from Kothagiri in the
Nilgiris.
• the largest rock art site in South India with about
500 paintings in an area that is 53 m long and
15 m wide. Experts say the rock paintings at
both Mavadaippu and Karikkiyur could be dated
to 2000 B.C. to 1500 B.C.
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• The paintings in white ochre include a procession of bisons, monkeys clambering up a tree branch, a herd of deer grazing, human beings welcoming one another with outstretched arms, a battle scene with men aiming at each other with bows and arrows, men on horseback engaged in battle, a shoulder-clasping dance after a successful boar-hunt, a man with a mask, the depiction of sun and its rays, a spiral, a tiger fighting another animal, and a man and his dog sleeping.
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REMARKABLE FEATURES OF
Karikkiyur rock art are images
like monkeys clambering up a
branch.
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Victory-dance after a hunt.
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A man and his dog sleeping.
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A battle scene at Karikkiyur, depicting
men with bows and arrows and on horse
back.
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• MAVADAIPPU, IN the backdrop of the
Anamalai hills, human and animal
figures in white
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Bull Chasing or Baiting