WHAT DlD NEANDERTHALS PAINT? WHAT DID THEY USE?

Question

I know Neanderthals painted things but what did they paint? What did they use to paint?

Answer 1

caveman art with blunt tools and homemade natural dyes like indigo ink.

Answer 2

The same thing humans use..... pigment and juices. Also anything that will produce a line like charcoal..... a branch from a tree that was struck by lightning. Anything...... what would you use in nature?

Answer 3

There are a lot of pop literature references to Neanderthal  paintings, and we have a cultural tradition that sort of equates Neanderthal with "cave men" and so naturally linked the to "cave paintngs."  Unfortunately for the reputation our Neanderthal cousins, almost of all the cave paintaings seem to have been done by Homo sapiens of their time.

There is some evidence from Neanderthal burial ritual that they may have used red ochre to paint their bodies, but that's a ittle ambiguous.  There are also some poorly attested cave sites with painting that show some sign of Neanderthal occupation, but most scholars have not concluded from that that the Neanderthal definitely did the paintings.  (There is alot of evidence suggesting most caves with prehistoric use were used multiple times and not necessarily by the same group of people.)

As for what the cave pantings were done with, many are actually engravings.  When there was something like true paint, it was almost invariably based in rocks and minerals like ochre, mica, and other things.  There is also some evidence for the use of tar, sap, and organic materials, and it may be that these types of paint were more common and simply haven't survived the years well.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Read:

The Neanderthal’s Necklace, In Search of the First Thinkers, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Translated by Andy Klatt, Illustrations by Juan Carlos Sastre, Copyright 2001 by Juan Luis Arsuaga, Translation Copyright  2002 by Four Walls Eight Windows.

It is a very enlightening book.  Most notions of Neanderthals are dispelled.  They had a larger cranial capacity than modern man, dispelling the Darwinists theories.

They painted animals and Neaderthals, using natural coloring, such as clay.

Answer 6

I know that a flute was found with some artifacts belonging to Neanderthals but as far as painting the paintings that are sometimes attributed to them are also attributed to "modern" humans. It is possible that separate paintings were done by both. As far as what they painted they would usually paint renditions of various animals which were generally used in hunting or fertility rituals. Also they generally would use either berries types of flowers(woad leaves), ground up iron ore mixed with water as well as animal and even human blood occasionally. As recent DNA evidence has revealed the possiblity that humans and neanderthals intermarried it is possible that the paintings were done by their descendents.

Answer 7

There is this Neanderthal in my neighborhood who paints houses for a living, but I think you are referring to old timey Neanderthal types...Yes, the men did paint naked pictures of Neanderthal women on the walls of caves where they used to gather and drink...They would catch rabbits and pull their ears off and use them as paint brushes (and the blood as paint... obviously)...The Neanderthal women weren't allowed to paint

...they had to cook the rabbits

Answer 8

Theres is some evidence for neanderthals having art ("juwelry"). But there is no scientific proof for cave paintings by neanderthals. The high art of cave painting bloomed much later, after the neanderthals were already extinct, with the Magdalénien people.