The Dawn of Art: A Virtual Journey Inside Chauvet Cave
Description
Explore the Chauvet Cave 36,000 years ago, with Daisy Ridley’s voice as your guide. It’s in the Ardèche gorges, in the south of France, that our ancestors drew humanity’s first masterpieces, giving life to their beliefs. Maybe you will also meet the cave bear…
The Chauvet Cave in Ardèche, France, hosts some of the oldest cave drawings in the world. The cave has been sealed off to the public since its discovery in 1994, to prevent damage to the millenia old artworks.
What Works Well
This video offers a chance to visit this very delicate World Heritage site through a simulation that takes the viewer into the perspective of an ancient human dwelling on-site.
Discipline
- Arts (Visual & Performing)
- Humanities & Language
Keywords
ancestors, ardèche, cave, early humans, informal learning, lithographic, primitive art, preservation, simulation, world heritage
Source
Google Arts & Culture
Level of Guidance
What does this mean?
The Level of Guidance indicates how much the creator has imbued the video with a sense of at what the viewer should be looking.
For instance, a Level 1 video would mean that the camera has been left in place while life happens around it, allowing you, as the viewer, to simply observe. A Level 2 video might incorporate subtle visual, textual or audible hints or simple transitions. A Level 3 video would rely on a handful of hints and transition. A Level 4 video would employ multiple hints and dialogue. And a Level 5 video would rely on all of the above as well as a narrative arc that pushes the viewer forward.
Another way of looking at this would be how much production went into the video if you are considering making one of your own like it.
Location
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