Cave Arts Painting

If you could go walking one day and meet a cave boy and girl who lived thousands of years ago, how would you talk to them?
You could not use words, for they would not understand. You could not say, "Let's be friends. Tell me all about you how you lived. Was it fun to live in a cave? Were you afraid when saw the huge mammoth?
How brave your hunters were to face him with a flint knife and a throwing dart for weapons!"
But you could talk to them without words.
You could draw a picture of your house to say, "This is where I live," The cave girl could draw a picture of her cave. The cave boy could draw a picture of hunter and charging mammoth.
He could beat his chest and shout triumphantly to tell you that the hunter had conquered the mammoth. That would be the cave man's way of singing his victory song, and as you listened, you would understand, for people have always made music to express triumph and pride, joy, and sadness, hope and prayer.
You could not speak together in words, but you could smile and act out the story that you wanted to be friends.
If you met a boy from Norway or Japan, you probably could not speak to them with words. But you could still talk together.
You and the cave boy and girl are thousands of years apart. You and the boy from Norway and Japan are thousands of miles apart. But you could speak to each other through a picture, a song, or a play through art and music and drama. For these are a language that people of every time and every country have and understood and understood and loved.