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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
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