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    The document discusses prehistoric art from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age. During the Paleolithic period from 25,000 to 10,000 BC, the first pictorial manifestations appeared as nomadic humans settled near rivers and lakes. Most cave art from this period is found in France and Spain, including the famous Lascaux and Altamira caves. In the Mesolithic period from 12,000 to 7,000 BC, as the climate stabilized, humans began hunting in groups and using tools like the tranchet adze. Geometric art became common using red ochre. The Neolithic period saw permanent settlements and the development of agriculture, weaving, mud brick architecture

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    The document discusses prehistoric art from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age. During the Paleolithic period from 25,000 to 10,000 BC, the first pictorial manifestations appeared as nomadic humans settled near rivers and lakes. Most cave art from this period is found in France and Spain, including the famous Lascaux and Altamira caves. In the Mesolithic period from 12,000 to 7,000 BC, as the climate stabilized, humans began hunting in groups and using tools like the tranchet adze. Geometric art became common using red ochre. The Neolithic period saw permanent settlements and the development of agriculture, weaving, mud brick architecture

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    Prehistoric Art!

    The Stone Age


    The Stone Age

    aleolithic Period
    Mesolithic Period
    Neolithic Period
    Paleolithic Period
    Old Stone Age

    From 25.000 B.C. until around10,000 B.C!

    During this period human beings started to settle near rivers


    and lakes, where they started to create the
    1st PICTORIC manifestations in their surroundings.

    They were still NOMADIC, they moved from place to place.


    Paleolithic Period
    Old Stone Age

    Cave Art
    Most of the cave art paintings are found in
    France and Spain.

    Lascaux Caves

    Altamira Cave
    Paleolithic Period
    Old Stone Age
    Paleolithic Period
    Old Stone Age
    Paleolithic Period
    Old Stone Age

    Look at the cave


    painting in
    Altamira Caves.

    What do you notice


    about the
    shapes and colors?

    What type of paint


    and tools did
    humans use?
    Paleolithic Period
    Old Stone Age

    Sculptures and pottery

    During this period, humans sculted small


    female figurines called The Venus.

    Archaeologists have suggested many


    different ways of
    understanding its significance.

    Fertility
    Good luck charm
    Mother goddess
    Paleolithic Period
    Old Stone Age

    Stone tools

    Some of the first tools humans used were made


    during this period.
    tools are probably more than 100,000 years old!

    Ovate hand axe. Pointed handaxe. Ovate hand


    98mm x 76mm 107mm x 74 mm. 122x76mm.
    Mesolithic Period
    Middle Stone Age

    Period between the LAST GLACIATION (12,000 years ago)


    and the beginning of the Neolithic period (7,000years ago)

    It was a period of
    climatic instability.
    During the Mesolithic,
    humans learned to
    hunt
    in groups and to fish,
    and began to learn
    how to domesticate
    animals and plants.
    Mesolithic Period
    Middle Stone Age

    geometric
    Mesolithic art is , with a restricted range
    of colors, dominated by the use of red ochre.

    Art objects include:

    painted pebbles,
    ground stone beads,
    pierced shells and
    teeth, and amber.
    Mesolithic Period
    Middle Stone Age

    Artifact from Lepenski


    Vir, Serbia.
    Mesolithic Period
    Middle Stone Age

    The Mesolithic period saw the first small cemeteries!


    Grave 13 Megalithic tomb
    Skateholm Scania

    Some of the burials included grave goods, tools, jewelry,


    shells, and animal and human figurines; goods that
    archaeologists suggest are evidence of the emergence
    of social stratification.
    Mesolithic Period
    Middle Stone Age
    Stone tools
    After the ice melted, humans began to visit new
    hunting grounds.
    They invented many new tools, including the Tranchet adze
    which was ment to be re-sharpened. They also began to use the
    hafted picks more regurlaly.

    Tranchet adze. Blade. microlith - used to make


    151mm x 48mm 76mm x30mm arrow heads, spears, and
    other weapons and tools
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    The Neolithic age represents a spree of


    hellzapoppin' innovation

    Humans were settling


    themselves down into
    agrarian societies and
    began to explore
    some key concepts of
    civilization, namely,
    religion,
    measurement, the
    rudiments of
    architecture and
    writing and, yes, ART.
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Climatic stability allowed humans to abandon their wandering


    ways and begin to construct more-or-less permanent villages.
    Huge developments in agriculture were made.

    This is called

    he Neolithic Revolution!

    What kinds of art were created during this time?


    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Weaving
    Clothes, textiles and straw mats held a prominent place in the
    daily life of Neolithic farmers.
    The main weaving fibres were flax and wool.
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Architecture - megaliths
    Simple structures that were normally used as temporary
    shelter.
    Some of the earliest forms of Neolithic architecture can be
    found in Asia.
    Common materials: Mud bricks and Stone.
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Stone walls

    CHARACTERISTICSMud Bricks

    Naturally shaped
    stone roof
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Stylized pictographs
    They were well on their way to becoming writing.
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Statuary
    Their theme dwelt primarily on the female/fertility, or
    "Mother Goddess" imagery.

    The “thinker" and the “sitting woman" of Hamangia


    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Painting
    It left the caves and cliffs for good, and became a purely
    decorative element
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Pottery
    It began replacing stone and wood utensils at a rapid pace,
    and also become more highly decorated.
    Neolithic Period
    New Stone Age

    Key characteristics of Neolithic art

     Functional
     More images of humans than animals
     It was used for ornamentation

    Homework!
    Mind-Map ----- Main characteristics of The Stone Age

    Coming Soon! Ancient civ

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