Prehistory

Prehistory

1. Human Origins

   • (story began about 7.000.000 y.a from a chimpanzees)
     • 20 homonins (/humans species) arose
       • Most became extinct
       • others became ancestors to humans
         • Large brains
           • Small teeth
             • Bipedality
               • Tool use
         • 3 major groups
           • Early Hominins
             • Lived in Africa (btw 7-4.4m y.g)
               • They'd APLE-LIKE TRAITS with chimpanzees
                 • Small cranial capacity
           • Australopithecines
             • Lived across the African continent (btw 4.4 -1.4m y.g)
               • APLE-LIKE TRAITS too
                 • They'd changes in the SKULL, SPINE and LEGS = BIPEAL LOCOMOTION
           • Homo Genus
             • (more than 2m y.g)
               • Homo species - distinctly more human
                 • - Cranial capacity - grow larger
                   • - Delevop stone tool technology
                     • - 1st to control fire
                       • this allow homo to be the first to migrate out of Africa and explore the world

2. ART ("")

   • pertains to all art form produced before the existence of any writing form
     • EUROCENTRIC (term)
       • pieces under that term were created from circa 30,000 BCE - 4,000 BCE
         • Paleolithic to Neolithic
         • Why are these artifacts important?
           • cuz we know how they lived, discover their value systems and we can learn from their existence
         • Venus of Willendorf
           • Austria
             • The huge depictions of the breasts and the buttocks = fertility statue
               • Venus of Lespugue
               • Venus of Laussel
         • Hall of the Bulls
           • 17 meter long torunda
             • The wall have paintings of animals (horses, cattle)
               • Recording the daily lives ans rituals - keeping track of their animals
                 • France
         • Cave of the Hands
           • (Arg.) created around 11,000 BCE - 5000 BCE
             • hand stennceils
               • Were made by blowing pigments
                 • territorial markings - version of census

3. ART in the Stone Age

   • New thoughths and ideas
     • ground yellow ochre was mixed with water = paint
       • In France was a cave with this paintings
         • experst believe that this paintings were part of an elaborate hunting ritual
         • Since 1963 the caves was sealed to the public
     • By the end of the Ice Age
       • Food was more abundant, early humans become herdsmen and farmers
     • around 5000 BC, massive architectural structures of stones appear
       • STONEHENGE (England)
         • Burial site a place of ritual and an accurate calendar
     • Easter Island
       • Prehistoric people created 30 foot tall statues of humans