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What to Study: Where are the Bhimbetka rock shelters (state, hills, nearest big city)? Remember who discovered them and when, how many shelters have been identified and how many hold paintings, and the year of the UNESCO World Heritage listing.
What to Study: Remember the main periods of Bhimbetka painting in order, especially the first three, with the main subjects and style of each. Understand how the shift from animals to humans to chariots and religious symbols follows changes in the life of the people who painted.
What to Study: Why does Bhimbetka matter for the antiquity and continuity of Indian art? Understand how the layers of paintings show long, continuous use of the site, and how it is compared with Lascaux in France. Where does the name come from, and is it an archaeological term or a cultural one?
What to Study: Which natural materials gave the red, yellow, white, black and green colours at Bhimbetka? Remember which rock, mineral or other material gave each colour, and why these pigments lasted so long.
What to Study: How was paint applied at Bhimbetka, and was the rock surface prepared first? Remember the tools and the binders used. Understand what repeated painting over the same rock faces suggests about how these sites were regarded.
What to Study: Be able to compare Bhimbetka painting with Harappan visual culture on medium, scale, purpose and style of figures. Pay special attention to continuity: which of the two is seen as an ancestor of later folk and tribal painting, and which has no confirmed successor?