GLOBAL PREHISTORY

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GLOBAL THEMES:

N.I.F.S

NATURE, IDENTITY,

FERTILITY & SURVIVAL

Key Ideas

  • *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