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EARLY TOOLS & art

EARLY TOOLS & art. Acheulian tools. Simple tools – chipped away stone until edges & points exposed; hand held axes & cleavers. Levallois Tools. More precise: side scrapers, specialty knives standardized shape & size. Aurignacian Tools. Narrow blades of stone, bone, ivory, & antler.

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EARLY TOOLS & art

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  1. EARLY TOOLS& art

  2. Acheulian tools • Simple tools – chipped away stone until edges & points exposed; hand held axes & cleavers

  3. Levallois Tools • More precise: side scrapers, specialty knives • standardized shape & size

  4. Aurignacian Tools • Narrow blades of stone, bone, ivory, & antler

  5. Solutrean Tools • Production of first-known needles, made from bone

  6. Magdalenian Tools • Production of barbed harpoons carved from antlers

  7. Two-Dimensional Art (painting)

  8. Three phases of development: 1. simple, single-color drawings of animals, people

  9. 2. Addition of color with outline creates sense of light and shadow

  10. 3. multi-colored paintings – realistic with detail and sense of movement and power

  11. Lascaux Caves, France – Hall of Bulls

  12. Shows possible hunting magic

  13. Tassili Rocks, Sahara Shows herding

  14. Shows animals that need water

  15. Patagonia & Gargas “Handprints” – almost always left hands; possible symbols of possessions or marks of rituals & ceremonies Note – positive & negative hand prints

  16. Three-Dimensional art (sculpture) • “portable” art: small, carved animal and human figures • represents a desire to create and enjoy beautiful objects; also used as religious symbols and fertility charms

  17. “Rock Giraffes” – Niger, Africa(in Sahara),dated 7000BCE Note: petroglyphs

  18. Venus Figures: fertility symbols representing “Mother Earth” or a fertility goddess (note: faceless) Venus of DolniVĕstonice, Moravia (25,000-20,000 BCE) Venus of Willendorf, Austria (25,000-20,000 BCE)

  19. Atlatl - antler spear thrower (Europe & North America)

  20. leaping horse-shaped atlatl, France mammoth-shaped atlatl, France

  21. “Cheddar Man” Underline and number where you locate the answers to the following questions: • What evidence is there to link this man, Adrian Targett, with the 9,000-year-old Cheddar Man? • What are some amusing items you find in this article?

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