Description
In the saws of Segura and Cazorla there are numerous coats and caves with rock paintings that are part of what is known as the Rupéstre Levino Art and which have been declared a World Heritage Site. We are talking about a very remote time, about 10,000 A.E. We must think of the inhabitants of the Caves of the Engarbo or the Cave of the Birth, for example, the latter being one of the few excavated and allowing to know the passage from Paleolithic to Neolithic. It is a time of great changes in the way of life in which human beings move from being a predator to domesticating vegetables and animals to getting plenty of food and storing it to avoid moving continuously.
The simple fact of seeing a seed germinate and growing plants, or of observing animals and the birth of women, made these people wonder about the origin of life. These thoughts were those that moved to the walls of the caves as a representation of facts related to daily life and its world of beliefs. We can imagine one of the inhabitants of the Cave of Birth preparing the pigments, mixing them with animal fat, improvising a brush with animal hair and getting ready to paint a scene. I'd be thinking of painting a composition with a hunting scene, fight, dance trying to tell a moment, a scene of life.
The rock paintings represent one of the most important cultural manifestations of prehistory, as they have helped to know some aspects of these societies to learn a little more about their life forms, fauna, flora and the world of their beliefs. What reasons could lead our ancestors to translate the manifestations of daily life and their beliefs into caves and coats? Maybe they were sanctuaries?
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