Upper Paleolithic

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Important Tools

Atlatl

21000 ya

Bow and Arrow 30,000 ya

Complex tools - tools w/ diff. parts

diff. materials

bone, ivory, wood, stone

Special Purposes Tools

Burin- etch

Blades food, grain, peel and stab animals whole set for diff. purposes

Awls

Needles

Harpoons

Cave Art - Animal Life, Oddities

30,000 ya- 20,000 ya

300+ Caves: Africa, Europe, Middle East

100s of images

Lascaux ??

Meaning?

Sympathetic Magic- draw horses, etc. so they com to you, Fertility Magic- animals reproduce, symbols, initiation rites, group interactions-gallery, art

We don't know

Sculpture- Venus Figures 30,000 ya - 20,000 ya 5'-6" Wood, Stone, Ivory, Clay

Purpose?

Fertility Objects

Earth Goddess Cult

Self Representations of Women

Representations of the Creator - Pregnancy

Portable Pornography

Portable Art

Charms

Represents Tribe's Matriarchy

Trade

How do we decide?

Carving - Rare

Bones, Wood, Stone

Music

Ritual - Burial

Evidence? Cemetery at Bøgebakken, Denmark - 4500 BCE

Red Ochre, Red Deer

Purpose

Suggest belief in religion

Animism ?

Humans are behaving in ways they haven't before

Homo sapiens tools

Homo sapiens cultural revolution