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PALEOLITHIC

PALEOLITHIC. Definition and edges Portable art Cave paintings. What is paleolithic?. 2.5 millions years ago. Era distinguished: stone tools. Agriculture. Knapped stone tools, wood and bone tools. Edges. Lower paleolithic. Middle paleolithic. Upper paleolithic. 2,5 millions years ago.

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PALEOLITHIC

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  1. PALEOLITHIC • Definition and edges • Portable art • Cave paintings

  2. What is paleolithic? 2.5 millions years ago Era distinguished: stone tools Agriculture Knapped stone tools, wood and bone tools Edges Lower paleolithic Middle paleolithic Upper paleolithic 2,5 millions years ago 300.000-30.000 years ago 40000-10000 years ago

  3. types Portable art Categories Types • Flat object eith engraving an paintings • Reliefs in caves • “Three dimensional” object

  4. Categories • Slightly modified natural objects • Composed of Fossils,bones,teeth,... Jewely • Engraved or painted stones • Decorated with animals,symbols, figures,... • Carved bone and others • Significant because ot the amount of time and effort • Statuetten and Ivory • Female statues • Made up with differents materials and tools

  5. Cave paintings • What are cave paintings • Where you can found them • Characteristics • Theme • Colors • Deterioration • What are cave paintings Are the pictures/ representation that paleolithic people made inside the caves Famous paintings: Altamira, Lascaux,...

  6. 2. Where you can found cave paintings Largest part of the cave paintings was found in Europe Same temperature Paintings in good conditions Same humidity 21 in Italy 1994 more than 300 caves with paintings uper paleolithic are known in Europe 150 France 125 Spain 1 in Rumania 3 in Portugal 2 in Germany 2 in Russia 1 in Yugoslavia

  7. 3.Characteristics 3.1 Themes • Figurative • Fauna(P.men) • Few drawn on walls • Horse-bisson. • Few representation • Associated with animals • Categories: • 1.Simple shapes(dots) • 2.More elaborated draws(circles,triangles,..) • Found in few sites

  8. 3.2 Colors One or two colors Paint with hands They can be of Vegetal origins Mixtures of liquids Made by minerals compounds Things that you don´t use Red principal color

  9. 3.Deterioration Lascaux Vegetation Freezing ice Air+co2=carbonatic acid disoves limestone Rainwater+termalconditions+carbonatic gas calcite

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