The rock art in these caves has been classified into various groups on the basis of the style and subject. (Click on all the images for bigger picture)
Upper Palaeolithic
Mesolithic
The paintings in this period are comparatively smaller in size. The linear representation of drawings are more stylish. Apart from animals, there are human figures. The hunting scenes clearly show the weapons like barbed spears, pointed sticks, bows and arrows used during those times.
The depiction of communal dances, birds, mother and child, pregnant women, men carrying dead animal, drinking etc, are seen in this rock shelter range.
Chalcolithic
The paintings in this period show that the cave dwellers of this area were in contact with the agricultural communities. They exchanged goods with them.
Early Historic
The paintings in this period are painted mostlty in red and white. The drawings have a schematic and decorative style. They mainly depict riders, religious symbols, tunic-like dresses, and the scripts of different periods.
Medival
The paintings in this period are geometric, linear and more schematic. The artistic style was crude when compared to earlier periods.
The picture below is taken at the first cave that you see as soon as one enters the cave complex. There are paintings of animals drawn in white color on the roof of the cave.
Upper Palaeolithic
The paintings in this period were mostly drawn using green and dark red colors as liner representations. The figures drawn were animals like bisons, boar.
Mesolithic
The paintings in this period are comparatively smaller in size. The linear representation of drawings are more stylish. Apart from animals, there are human figures. The hunting scenes clearly show the weapons like barbed spears, pointed sticks, bows and arrows used during those times.
Hunting scene
The depiction of communal dances, birds, mother and child, pregnant women, men carrying dead animal, drinking etc, are seen in this rock shelter range.
people dancing holding hands at the top and they are going for hunting at the bottom
Chalcolithic
The paintings in this period show that the cave dwellers of this area were in contact with the agricultural communities. They exchanged goods with them.
Early Historic
The paintings in this period are painted mostlty in red and white. The drawings have a schematic and decorative style. They mainly depict riders, religious symbols, tunic-like dresses, and the scripts of different periods.
Medival
The paintings in this period are geometric, linear and more schematic. The artistic style was crude when compared to earlier periods.
The picture below is taken at the first cave that you see as soon as one enters the cave complex. There are paintings of animals drawn in white color on the roof of the cave.
This place can be reached directly from Bhopal or from Bhojpur as I had done.
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