Painting
Prehistoric Rock Paintings
- In India the earliest paintings have been reported from the Upper Palaeolithic times.
- The first discovery of rock paintings was made in India in 1867–68 by an archaeologist, Archibold Carlleyle.
Upper Palaeolithic Period
- The paintings of the Upper Palaeolithic phase are linear representations, in green and dark red, of huge animal figures, such as bisons, elephants, tigers, rhinos and boars besides stick-like human figures.
- The green paintings are of dancers and the red ones of hunters.
Mesolithic Period
- Hunting scenes predominate in paintings.
- The hunting scenes depict people hunting in groups, armed with barbed spears, pointed sticks, arrows ....
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