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

Bowmen and Deer, Cliff Painting Los Caballos, Spain,10,000-9000 BC. MESOLITHIC PERIOD. MESOLITHIC PERIOD began 12,000 BP. Mesolithic tool kits were based on chipped stone and often include microliths, very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft

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

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  1. Bowmen and Deer, Cliff PaintingLos Caballos, Spain,10,000-9000 BC MESOLITHIC PERIOD

  2. MESOLITHIC PERIODbegan 12,000 BP • Mesolithic tool kits were based on chipped stone and often include microliths, very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft • Hunter-gatherers began to store food in containers • Less reliance 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’AjjerAlgeria • 8000 years ago , the Sahara Desert spreading , today, from West to East in Africa , used to be a fertile land with rivers abounding with fish , rich grassy hills abounding with 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 in caverns or on cliffs , testimonies making one of the most complete catalogs ever found about prehistoric life .

  4. GobustanAzerbijan • Situated between the south-eastern slope -of the Greater Caucasian Range and the Caspian Sea, lies the plain broken with ravines, called Gobustan (the territory of Gobu). • In the mountains of Gobustan, the witnesses to the past of Azerbaijan people of the Stone Age and subsequent periods are concentrated: these are over 6000 rock carvings, settlements, and tombstones, the oldest from 12,000 bce

  5. BhimabetakaIndia • Bhimabetaka, is located 45 km to the south-east of Bhopal near a hill village called 'Bhiyanpur'. • “Bhima's sitting place” (character in Mahabharata) is the literal meaning of Bhimabetaka which probably it got due to its mysterious huge rock caves. • Atop the hill a large number of rock-shelters have been discovered containing more than 130 paintings.

  6. Mesolithic Websites Sahara: The Tassili Frescoes Tassili Najjer: World Heritage site description Archaic Art of N. Africa Gobustan website from Azerbijan Ministryof Culture -- server connection not always reliable Gobustan: text description of the area Prehistoric Rock Art of India Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Bhimabetaka Rock Art Index from the Ancient World Web

  7. 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

  8. NEOLITHIC PERIOD Click here to continue

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