Paleolithic

Throughout history female figures have played an important role as subject matter. The female figure is very subjective, as peered through the different lenses of varying cultures. The status and functions of women in these cultures are the primary factors that influence how they are portrayed in art of a certain culture. However, the female figure itself through its natural and inherent iconography represents fertility and the importance of women in society. This natural iconography creates certain

until then, these humans were nomads (they didn’t have any settled homelands). They wandered (in small groups) from place to place to find food such as hunting animals for meat and gathering wild grains, nuts, and berries. This was known as the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age). By about 10,000 years ago, some people starting settling down and growing their own food. Some of these farmers also started to domesticate animals like cattle and sheep. The hunters didn’t start farming right away because there

The Venus of Willendorf is one of the oldest and most famous early images of a human. She represents what use to be the “ideal woman” with her curvy figure and the emphasis on fertility seen in the features of her sculpted body. This paper will analyze the Venus of Willendorf sculpture in terms of its formal analysis. Most of the information about the Venus of Willendorf is based on scientific research and theory because there is no actual documentation that dates back as far as the sculpture.

The first human societies were known as Egalitarian Societies made up of small populations. The Paleolithic people were existent during The Old Stone Age, and they were known for creating cave art used for ceremonial purposes, using stone hunting tools, and forming Venus Figurines to show their appreciation for women. This group of humanity was said to have populated the entire globe starting with the modern day Iraq migrations over 45,000 years ago. At the same time, the first homosapians were

The late Paleolithic Era fostered many social and technological innovations that allowed for rapid development and growth, and resulted in the spread of Homo Sapiens around the globe. These innovations, spurred by changing climate conditions including a warmer wetter climate in southeast Africa and lowering sea levels, included greater mastery over fire, tools, and language. Combined, these innovations allowed Homo sapiens to cope with new challenges and migrate around the world. The climate of the

Humans’ lives would be drastically different if it wasn’t for the Neolithic Revolution. All the lifestyle changes in this time period made a drastic change in how individuals lived. However, Paleolithic people were nomads in search of food. Also, no one had specific jobs because everyone’s jobs were focused on hunting and gathering food. During this time period, everything was made of stone because it was an easy to find and bountiful resource. The Neolithic Revolution is often called the “New Stone

Within the Paleolithic era, many changes occurred from cultural to biological. Several of the changes the happened in this time period, have remained today. At the beginning of the Paleolithic era our primate ancestors existed, but by the end humans in our modern form existed across the world. Homo sapiens sapiens remains have been dated to 100,000 years ago. The emergence of art, the beginning of personal adornment, the domestication of the dog, and intentional burials started in this time period

The archaeological record suggests that humanity’s (Paleolithic) origins were violence, they had evidence such as bones and mummies. Life back then humans lived in anarchy without a central government to help make rules or prevent violence from occurring. Life back then you were either a hunter or gatherer. This relates to Hobbes because Hobbes stated “ The life of man: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Violence is known as these things such as nasty and brutish which leads to short lives

Sedentism and domestication represent not just a technological change but also a change in worldview. Land was no longer a free good, available to anyone, with resources scattered randomly across the landscape; it was transformed into particular territories, collectively or individually owned, on which people raised crops and flocks.  Thus, sedentism and a high level of resource extraction (whether by complex foraging or farming) led to concepts of property that were rare in previous foraging societies

As its name suggests, the Paleo Diet gets its inspiration through the Paleolithic era, when man survived like a hunter-gatherer. The diet, originated by Loren Cordain, health professor with the Colorado State University, is dependant on a radical distinct thought. Professor Cordain argues that considering that the human genome hasn't evolved over the last 50,000 years possibly even, there exists reason to imagine that this most natural diet for man is what his caveman ancestors ate. In other words