*Early humans responded to the beautiful and aesthetic (Makapansgat Pebble)-ultimately responding by creating object and images
*Earliest works are cave paintings and portable sculptures
*Conjectures are made about the meaning of prehistoric works
*Monuments like Stonehenge show that people were able to build structures made of the post and lintel system.
*The need to create is one of the strongest human impulses.
*Focus on materials indigenous to the environment/geography
*Since context is largely unknown, focus on original location and content
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS & KNOWLEDGE
*Human Expression existed across the globe-Art existed before written record
*Prehistoric human behavior & artistic expression was influenced by changing geographic environments
*Periods of Global Prehistory-
Paleolithic ( old stone)
Mesolithic ( middle stone age)
Neolithic (new stone age)
*First peoples were small groups of hunter-gatherers whose focuses was survival
*Early humans created practical tools, ritual & symbolic objects made from ceramics, painted on rock surfaces, sculptures of woman and animals as well as architecture ( stone megalithic installations)
KNOW THESE IMAGES:
1.Apollo 11 stones 2. Great Hall of the Bulls 3. Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a canine 4. Running Horned woman 5. Beaker with ibex motifs 6. Anthropomorphic Stele 7. Jade Cong 8. Stonehenge 9. The Ambum Stone 10. Tlatilco female figurine 11. Terra cotta fragment
