ANCIENT CIVILIZATION

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  • Paleolithic - 3 millions 10000 AC
  • Paleolithic - First human species 2.5 million yrs BC
  • Paleolithic -Use of fire 1 million yrs BC
  • Neolithic - 10000 BC
  • Neolithic -Agriculture begins 10000 BC
  • Ancient age - 3000 BC to 476 AC
  • Ancient age - Invention of writing 3000 BC
  • Medieval age - 476 AC to 1492 AC
  • Medieval age - Fall of Western Roman Empire 476 AC
  • Modern age - Columbus discovere d America 1492 AC
  • Modern age- 1492 to 1789 AC
  • Contemporary age- 1789 AC to 2011 AC
  • Contemporary age- French Revolution 1789 AC
  • Petroglyphs - Images on a rock surface by carving, engraving, etc
  • Cupules: cup-shaped depression in rock; believed fertility rites
  • Pictographs - Drawing, stencil art and painting in prehistoric caves
  • Pictograph theories: decorative, perhaps in connection with social, supernatural or religious rituals
  • Prehistoric Sculpture - relief sculptures and small portable art; included small female sculptures
  • Relief sculptures: - any work which projects from but which belongs to the wall, or other type of background surface, on which it carved
  • Venus figurines: - term given to a collection of prehistoric statuettes of women made during the Paleolithic Period
  • Venus figurines: found in Europe, but with finds as far as Siberia
  • Venus Laussel (c23,000 BCE)
  • Venus Laussel - fertility symbolism
  • Venus Laussel - one of earliest relief sculpture
  • Venus of Berekhat Ram = considered one of the earliest known representations of the human form
  • . A recent study published in “Obesity” has suggested instead that the figurines are totems of survival in extreme conditions
  • Megalithic Art - large , often undressed stone
  • Petreform- Construction of type of monuments, during 4500-1000 BCE
  • Easter Island & Stonehenge- ceremonial or ritualistic structures
  • Knowth - single or multiple tombs
  • Gobekli Tepe - sanctuaries
  • Stonehenge - 3000 BC to 2000 BC
  • Stonehenge - prehistoric monument, burial mounds
  • Moai at Easter Island: -Living faces of defied (made god-like) ancestors
  • PALEOLITHIC – the late years of the old Stone Age
  • MESOLITHIC – Middle Stone Age.
  • NEOLITHIC - New Stone Age
  • MESOLITHIC – - 8,000- 3,000 BCE
  • . PALEOLITHIC –- 32,000 - 8,000 BCE
  • NEOLITHIC - 3000- 1,500 BCE