Paleolithic

the roles of women who lived in hunting and gathering societies. In hunter-gather societies, women provided more food than men because you could obtain more food by gathering than you could by hunting. It is stated that women contributed to the Paleolithic society by providing food and by being the first artists. In the section titled “Women in Prehistory” by Margaret Ehrenberg, she argues that women were the first farmers and that they contributed to society by also developing the innovations…

beginning of time, so they could make Greece successful. Sakoulas explained how the Greeks were found productive by writing,”A wealth of stone tools found in sites in Espirus, Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Peloponnese reveal the existence of flourishing Paleolithic and Mesolithic communities in the Greek mainland”(Sakoulas,4). The stone tools were there so they could build empires, the Greeks were always working hard to build a new era. The Greeks in the Bronze Age were advanced. The Cycladic,…

(1) Where is Koonalda? What is found there? Koonalda Cave lies in the middle south of the continent of Australia, in the dry and desolate area of Nullarbor. This cave is significant because it is one of the multiple connecting caves formed by acidic water percolating through the limestone composition, which is a created environment for preserving fossil records. It is at Koonalda that the earliest human impressions of human hand incisions swirled throughout the interior that archaeologists can…

body of pre-historical evidence of goddess worship in the earliest societies of our world, showing that Goddess worship is indeed older than contemporary patriarchal systems (Schulz, 1999, p. 2). From the sparse evidence of worship in the upper Paleolithic period of 25,000BCE, to the strong evidence of a well established reverence to the supreme Creator as the Goddess in the Neolithic period of 7000BCE (Mueller, 2000, p. 1). The Semetic people of the Middle Eastern areas in and around Syria…

After being introduced to the history of the visual arts from the Paleolithic period I noticed myself becoming more attracted to the various elements and forms from the ancient Greeks specifically starting from the time of the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic Period. As I was visiting J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, I specifically was looking out for works of art done by the ancient Greeks and while being there I discovered sculptures that were more commonly nude males made of bronze and marble…

In my opinion if it was not for agriculture, civilizations would not be where they are today. Because of agriculture, civilizations became better, humans became better, and life itself around the world became better. Agriculture was the key to sedentary civilization, domestication of animals led to food supply. Agriculture is the cultivation of animals and plants, and anything else that is a food source. Agricultural Revolution is also the term for New Stone Age and they are huge contributors of…

1. Culture Definition: Culture can be defined as means of non-biological, non-genetic human adaptation to the world. Likewise, culture is learned behaviors that have enabled us to cope with our social and physical habitat. (Price & Feinman, 2013, p 5). Importance: The concept of culture is an important aspect of study, as it largely details how we detached from our common ancestor and advanced as a species. The development of culture provided early humans with the means of survival, as they were…

Homo neanderthalensis evolved in Europe 300,000 years ago, spread out across the continent, and persevered through the great climatic shifts of the Upper and Middle Paleolithic, before abruptly being replaced by Homo sapiens in the archaeological record around 40,000 years ago. Since the first Neanderthal remains were excavated from a limestone quarry in Germany’s Neander Valley in the middle of the 19th century, the question of how these remarkable hominids met their demise has engaged the…

On December 9th, 2016, I visited the Egyptian Section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, I discovered many ancient Egyptian artworks and artifacts, ranging in date from the Paleolithic era all the way to 4th century A.D- with special focus on the Middle and New Kingdoms. Two of the biggest and most memorable artworks were the Tomb of Perneb, and the Temple of Dendur. The Egyptian collection depicted what life was like in Ancient Egypt- what the people chose to engrave onto stone, what…

and antiquity. In Thomsen’s Three Age System, artifacts are classified into one of three eras. These three different periods of time are the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Moreover, the Stone Age is divided into two categories, the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) or the Neolithic (New Stone Age). This strategy is one of the many methods used to help classify, and interpret the data collected. Regarding Archaeology and its history, there are Processual and Postprocessual periods.…