Altamira Prehistoric Bison

by Weston Westmoreland

Title

Altamira Prehistoric Bison

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting

Description

Prehistoric Bison from Altamira, Spain. Digital painting.

The bison in Altamira are beyond any doubt amongst the most fine and exquisite paintings of the paleolithic. It is difficult to find bison of similar delicacy in Lascaux, Chauvet or Niaux, to mention some of the most amazing caves so far discovered.

This painting was made from a carbon copy Abbott Henri Breuil drew straight off the roof of the cave in 1906.

The paintings in Altamira date from the Magdalenian age, about 15-17,000 ybp.

The steppe bison or steppe wisent (Bison priscus) is an extinct species of bison that ranged Europe, Asia, and North America during the Quaternary.

Over 6 ft tall at the shoulder, reaching 2,000 lb in weight, with the tips of the horns three feet apart and the horns themselves over 1.5 ft long, it had to be pretty awe-striking to come across a creature like this one. Particularly if you meant to hunt it.

Huge, immensely powerful and short tempered as it was, prehistoric humans, Neanderthals first and then us, had it as part of their menu. Our ancestors had intimate knowledge of these animals as can be attested through many exquisite cave paintings, notably in the Caves of Altamira and Lascaux, and in paleolithic bone carvings.

The steppe bison became extinct in the early Holocene and is the ancestor of both American and European bison. Some specimens have been rescued, in quite a good state of preservation, from the permafrost.

A truly amazing creature of titanic elegance.


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Weston Westmoreland.

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Шове, Ласко, Альтамира, пещерное искусство, бизон, пещерный медведь, медведь, пещерный лев, лев, бизон, олень, бык, мамонт, лошадь, корова, носорог, палеолитический, доисторический

art rupestre, bison, ours des cavernes, ours, lion des cavernes, Lion, bison, cerf, taureau, mammouth, cheval, vache, rhinocéros, paléolithique, préhistorique

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April 18th, 2015

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