2. The Stone Age
Paleolithic Period Mesolithic Period Neolithic Period
3. Paleolithic Period
Old Stone Age
From 25.000 B.C. until around10,000 B.C!
During this period human beings started to settle near rivers
and lakes, where they started to create the
1st PICTORIC manifestations in their surroundings.
They were still NOMADIC, they moved from place to place.
4. Paleolithic Period
Old Stone Age
Cave Art
Most of the cave art paintings are found in
France and Spain.
Altamira Cave
Lascaux Caves
7. Paleolithic Period
Old Stone Age
Look at the cave
painting in
Altamira Caves.
What do you notice
about the
shapes and colors?
What type of paint
and tools did
humans use?
8. Paleolithic Period
Old Stone Age
Sculptures and pottery
During this period, humans sculted small
female figurines called The Venus.
Archaeologists have suggested many
different ways of
understanding its significance.
Fertility
Good luck charm
Mother goddess
9. Paleolithic Period
Old Stone Age
Stone tools
Some of the first tools humans used were made
during this period.
These tools are probably more than 100,000 years old!
Ovate hand axe.
98mm x 76mm
Pointed handaxe.
107mm x 74 mm.
Ovate hand
122x76mm.
10. Mesolithic Period
Middle Stone Age
Period between the LAST GLACIATION (12,000 years ago)
and the beginning of the Neolithic period (7,000years ago)
It was a period of climatic
instability.
During the Mesolithic,
humans learned to hunt
in groups and to fish, and began
to learn how to domesticate
animals and plants.
11. Mesolithic Period
Middle Stone Age
Mesolithic art is geometric, with a restricted range of colors, dominated by the
use of red ochre.
Art objects include:
painted pebbles, ground stone
beads, pierced shells and teeth,
and amber.
13. Mesolithic Period
Middle Stone Age
The Mesolithic period saw the first small cemeteries!
Some of the burials included grave goods, tools, jewelry, shells, and animal and human
figurines; goods that archaeologists suggest are evidence of the emergence of social
stratification.
Grave 13
Skateholm
Megalithic tomb
Scania
14. Mesolithic Period
Middle Stone Age
Stone tools
After the ice melted, humans began to visit new
hunting grounds.
They invented many new tools, including the Tranchet adze which was ment to be re-sharpened.
They also began to use the hafted picks more regurlaly.
Tranchet adze.
151mm x 48mm
Blade.
76mm x30mm
microlith - used to make arrow heads,
spears, and other weapons and tools
15. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
The Neolithic age represents a spree of
hellzapoppin' innovation
Humans were settling
themselves down into agrarian
societies and began to explore
some key concepts of
civilization, namely, religion,
measurement, the rudiments of
architecture and writing and,
yes, ART.
16. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Climatic stability allowed humans to abandon their wandering ways and begin to construct
more-or-less permanent villages. Huge developments in agriculture were made.
What kinds of art were created during this time?
This is called
The Neolithic Revolution!
17. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Weaving
Clothes, textiles and straw mats held a prominent place in the daily life of Neolithic
farmers.
The main weaving fibres were flax and wool.
18. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Architecture - megaliths
Simple structures that were normally used as temporary
shelter.
Some of the earliest forms of Neolithic architecture can be
found in Asia.
Common materials: Mud bricks and Stone.
19. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Stone walls
Mud Bricks
CHARACTERISTICS
Naturally shaped stone
roof
20. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Stylized pictographs
They were well on their way to becoming writing.
21. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Statuary
Their theme dwelt primarily on the female/fertility, or
"Mother Goddess" imagery.
The “thinker" and the “sitting woman" of Hamangia
22. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Painting
It left the caves and cliffs for good, and became a purely
decorative element
23. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Pottery
It began replacing stone and wood utensils at a rapid pace,
and also become more highly decorated.
24. Neolithic Period
New Stone Age
Key characteristics of Neolithic art
Functional
More images of humans than animals
It was used for ornamentation
Homework!
Mind-Map ----- Main characteristics of The Stone Age
Coming Soon! Ancient civilizations
