Venus figurines

Sophia Nguyen Period 5 Chapter 1 Document 1. I feel that Nisa’s account of her life helps with understanding the much earlier Paleolithic people is very helpful because it gives a first person perspective on the life of a person living in a hunting-gathering society, like the Paleolithic people. Because Nisa doesn’t get much exposure to people outside her society, communicating with others was especially more important to her. 2. To Nisa, sex was very important to her because she didn’t want to…

the side of the tub, the fan clasped gently in her gloved hand. The other is propped up against the wall, suggesting some sort of gesture, the nature of which remains unclear. In the corner of the bathtub where the rim meets the wall sit a golden figurine of a swan and two Chanel perfume bottles. Again, as in “Let Them Eat Cakes,” her gaze is fixed upon something out of the frame, a look of vague interest playing across her…

It is believed that first evidence of artistic activity is a diagonal itching on a stone with a shark tooth, associated to Homo erectus around 500 000 years ago. However the oldest undisputed form of figurative art is a sculptured Venus figurine around 40 000 years ago. A time where human behavior hadn’t yet developed behavioral modernity which consists of abstract thinking and symbolic behavior among other things, yet art found its way. These first forms of art were not pure creation of the…