African_Art

African Art African Art The history of African Art is a complex and controversial topic. Historians, archaeologists, and researchers all have their own opinions on influences and the origins of the various types of arts. The majority of the controversy is which culture derived their arts from that of another culture and where each art was born. Rock art displays many similarities between cultures, but also you can see that different African regions have distinct styles. There is a debate on when certain rock art was actually produced; scientists have done their best to dissect the rock art into categories based on their time of creation. The earliest period of rock art is called the Bubalus period. Most of the rock art in this period consisted of mostly carvings or engravings. The engravings were mostly of wildlife that was around in that period, most likely the act of hunters. The most common carving was of Antiqus, which scientists’ believe was a form of cattle with large horns. Recent findings have shown that Antiqus’ were actually domesticated cattle which would imply that the earliest Saharan rock art is no older than 5,000 B.C. The next period was named african, art, africa, period, arts, rock, people, egypt, culture, engravings, society, seems, paintings, between, believe, because, yoruba, throughout, sculptures, mostly, made, ivory, influences, found, egyptian, different, time, symbol, southern, show, ritual, researchers, represented, proverbs