Upper Paleolithic

The Human impulse to create art was common for Upper Paleolithic. Art was the mind tool to communicate beliefs and demonstrating ideas about the human experience from all civilizations and every region of the world. Documents throughout art history around the world show works of art provide important awareness into past and existing cultures, assisting us to comprehend how others have lived or survived and what they find benefited them. There are many explanation for Upper Paleolithic cave painting for example, what they vision in their mind is something they want to display in life and to do that it have to be on a stone or in a cave. Another examples are history and memory to document their history of the past with success and failure, belief…

According to Bar, (2002) the Upper Paleolithic is the process that changed from middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic. This process was typically considered mainly as the major revolution of its kind in the first history of human evolution. The concept represented an observable event in parts of Eurasia; however its presence across other regions was not effectively noticed. The events included the biological, cultural, technological as well as environmental and geographical features/event of…

The last stage of the “Old Stone Age” is the Upper Paleolithic Era. During the Upper Paleolithic Era, modern humans drastically changed the tools that were being used. The changes that were made were, leaving behind the hand axe and flake tools and gaining blade tools (Aggarwal). Blade tools were created using the punch flaking technique (O’Neil). The first step in this technique was preparing the rock core, the next step is, placing a hard pointed punch near the striking platform (O’Neil). The…

Throughout history, humans have undergone significant changes that influenced their lives in a plethora of ways – both positive and negative. One example is the Upper Paleolithic period, which is considered a time of a creative and cultural explosion. This also marks the true beginning of human cultural behavior. The introduction of Homo habilis led to the advancement of art in the form of painting, venus figurines, and many more forms of expression. At the same time, this period led to a…

More than 2.75 million years ago, hominids were using simple stone tools. Eventually, knapping techniques were developed and used to chip flakes from a source or core stone to make spear points and other tools. Creating these required planning the final project in advance, and many forms ended up symmetrical. Thousands of examples of stone works have been found around the globe, demonstrating high degrees of skill and aesthetic awareness even in utilitarian tools. The most impressive spear…

entrance to the cave was blocked so the opening on the top was created when the top layer of limestone was hollowed out during the Cold episodes of the Quaternary. After Jean-Pierre Daugas announced the discovery, Heritage Curator at the Rhône-Alpes regional culture affairs department alerted Jean Clottes from the Ministry of Culture. Jean Clottes would arrange for the cave to be authenticated. He also recommended that the cave be transfer to the State of Rhône in France in order to ensure that…

The Lascaux caves in France contain many petroglyphs from the Upper Paleolithic time period. Archaeologist used radiocarbon from fragments of charcoal and “placed Lascaux in the Magdalenian culture” (Aujoulat). The artwork in these caves gives insight into the lives of the anatomically modern Homo sapiens (AMHS) who drew these paintings by demonstrating the types of animals they were living with, and why they were important to them. Furthermore, these paintings give insight into the intellect of…

The cave of Altamira has the privilege of being the first place in the world where the existence of cave art from the Upper Paleolithic age was identified. Its singularity and quality, its magnificent conservation, and the freshness of its pigments made its recognition to be postponed for a quarter of a century (Led to the postponement of its recognition for a quarter of a century.). At that time, it was a scientific anomaly, a discovery that set up a giant leap and not an incremental step. It…

Cave of Forgotten Dreams What could an old piece of art tell us about the lives of early humans? Believe it or not, old pieces of art from the Paleolithic era has lead us to amazing discoveries and interpretations about the life style of the early humans. 30,000 years ago, keeping records of events had no importance to humans, their only goal in life was to survive. Even though there is no clear record of prehistoric human events, painters and sculptors of that time left behind some cave…

If there is anything that could describe the world as it ages, it would be art. Art has been part of our history from the very beginning at which it has served as the earliest form of record of the events that occurred in the past. It also has illustrated and still illustrates life from different time periods and cultures. One recurring subject that appeared throughout the entire history of art is the depiction of man and how it has developed over the centuries. From the art of the Paleolithic…