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Bowmen and Deer Cliff Painting Los Caballos, Spain, 10,000-9000 bce

Bowmen and Deer Cliff Painting Los Caballos, Spain, 10,000-9000 bce. MESOLITHIC PERIOD. MESOLITHIC PERIOD began 12,000 bp. Mesolithic tool kits were based on chipped stone Hunter-gatherers began to store food in containers

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Bowmen and Deer Cliff Painting Los Caballos, Spain, 10,000-9000 bce

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  1. Bowmen and DeerCliff PaintingLos Caballos, Spain,10,000-9000 bce MESOLITHIC PERIOD

  2. MESOLITHIC PERIODbegan 12,000 bp • Mesolithic tool kits were based on chipped stone • Hunter-gatherers began to store food in containers • Relied less on large mammals for food -- more on fish and small game • Domestication of animals began with domestication of dogs • Rock art paintings and carvings increasingly depict human communal activities as well as animals

  3. Tassili N’Ajjer Algeria • 8000 years ago, the Sahara Desert used to be a fertile land with rivers full of fish and rich grassy hills full of game . • Cultures followed one another leaving their own records • Era of Hunters : 6000 to 4000 B.C. • Era of Stockbreeders: 4000 to 1500 B.C. • Era of Horse : 1500 B.C. to 1st century A.D. • Era of Camel : from 1st century on • They left painted or engraved testimonies making one of the most complete catalogs ever found about prehistoric life .

  4. Tassili People

  5. Tassili Animals

  6. Tassili Hunters

  7. Tassili Dancers and Musicians

  8. GobustanAzerbijan • Gobustan (the territory of Gobu): a plain situated between the south-eastern slope -of the Greater Caucasian Range and the Caspian Sea. • Over 6000 rock carvings, settlements, and tombstones, the oldest from 12,000 bce are in the mountains of Gobustan .

  9. Gobustan People females hunter

  10. Gobustanis dancing the Yally

  11. Gobustan boats attracted the attention of Thor Heyerdahl

  12. BhimabetakaIndia • Bhimabetaka, is located 45 km to the south-east of Bhopal near a hill village called 'Bhiyanpur'. • “Bhima's sitting place” is the literal meaning of Bhimabetaka • Atop the hill a large number of rock-shelters contain more than 130 paintings.

  13. Bhimabetakadeer

  14. Bhimabetaka bison and elephant

  15. Bhimabetaka dog

  16. Bhimabetaka hunters

  17. Bhimabetaka warriors

  18. Bhimabetaka dance

  19. As the nomadic hunter-gatherers domesticated more animals and began to cultivate crops -- wheat, rice and corn -- around the world, Mesolithic cultures entered into the Neolithic Revolution

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