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Atefeh Niromand
Graphic department, Islamic Azad university, Sahneh, Iran.
*Corresponding author: hasanvand@yahoo.com
Keywords
Abstract
Lorestan
Iran
Cave painting
Hunting
The simple tools, animal images and the hunter chasing the hunt are the most important images on the
prehistoric cave walls. These images are resulted from abstract painting and to some extent express their
owners feeling, needs and life styles.
The prehistoric Lorestan (Iran) cave images are of these simple, abstract images remaining from cave mans.
The objective of this research is to study the probability of the images language in spatial and temporal
limits of doing these works and also to introduce them to the world. So we can use this to make real the
hypothesis about the earliest residents in this land. In the present research referring to expert theories and
field studies the aesthetic interest of its authors and reference to the symbolic aspect of animal elements in
latter periods and the probable reasons of painting the images are presented.
Introduction
As a most of the prehistoric human communications had been in a form of visual signs like color, form, design, symbols and signs, so it is
reasonable to say that from the early social life the use of these signs had been necessary and they had been inevitable. These signs which are
here called image tracked tow ideas.
1- Narrate their owners life environment and their basic needs. For instance they talk about hunting and demonstrate daily events.
2- They showed their magic beliefs and emotional needs.
Undoubtedly, one of the prominent manifestations of the early humans culture and civilization which had been ignored in Iran are Lorestan cave
paintings that based on evidence with several thousand years ago they can be served as the oldest prehistoric human works.
Lorestan natural geography : Lorestan is Located at west-sought of Iran among high mountains with natural glaciers and wet valleys and an
compatible nature is one of the oldest periods up to now and it has been an ecosystem for human, animals, trees and plants and it is one of the
four biological regions in Middle East1 (Figure 1,2).
In general, about 85% of its surface is covered by mountains; the average height of mountains is 1700m. Of its important mountains it can point
to Oshtrankooh and sefidkooh with 4050n and 2931m height respectively.
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Years
10000-20000 (B.C.)
20000-30000 (B.C.)
30000-38000 (B.C.)
38000-50000 (B.C.)
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Figure 9-10
1. Images of the horse and human: As the food preparation during hunting needs high bodily power, this had been done by men. The difficult
environmental conditions of the region required strong men who could prepare victims food. Thus the remaining images, show the warlike men
(Figure 5,7).
2. The image of dog: from archaeological findings and historical texts it is inferred that the use of the dog has an old history.Among dogs which
are mentioned in Avesta3, the booty one is called Vohunazga which is a combination of the word Vohuna means blood fromga
infinitive means being, going, chasing, tracking. "Vohunazga" means tracking blood, smell blood4 "
Among images on the prehistoric cave walls in Lorestan, the image of the booty dog can be characterized clearly. This shows the effective role
and the permanent companionship of the dog with human from past to present the well.(Figure 8).
3. Antelope: This animal had been always painted being hunted or escaping. In most cases the dexterity attribute and its life style had been
ignored in its drawing. (Figure 9)
In latter historic periods, in Mehri customs and Lorestan metal period. 5
The antelope has always been protected as a symbol of fertility by goddesses. This can be well understood by studying metal made s.
4. Gazelle: This image is seen less and in cases in form of a single- image
It isnt certain that whether the issue is hunting or not. Gazelle in letter periods was a symbol of darkness overcoming lightening and this had
been fully related to the dead s burial (Figure 10).
5. Weapon and tools: Studying the paintings and the presence of the weapons and tools in hunting scenes tools like arc, short and long spears
and stone can be observed.
-kabiri, 1356
- Iran's religious book Rdtshtyan
-Poor davood, 1355, p 214
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- Civilization during the caveman era Lorestan
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