Pre History world studdies II

Pre History

Sarrah Simpson


   

If it wasn't for these people life today would not be the way it is. Thanks to them we have had a successful life on earth. They developed special techniques on the ways to live life, on children , hunting, they changed so much over time.

There are many different people that lived in pre history. Some of them are Australopithecines they walked upright and had opposable thumbs.

  

Then there are Homo habilis were the first tool makers and known as the handy men.

 

Then the Homo erectus were the last homids from Africa.

 

Cro- Magrons were the first to develop art skills and able to express ideas.

 

Homo sapien sapiens are modern humans.

 
Homo Sapiens were the wise men and had brains the size of modern humans. 

 

Neatherthands used advanced tools and were language capable and very like modern humans.

 

 

Cave Painting's

Lascaux Caves

 

The Lascaux paintings were painted 16,000 to 17,000 years ago.They are located in France. The painters had to crawl deep into caves using only a lantern that was burning animal fat and carry all of the items it took to paint. I could not imagine how bad that would smell probably worse than rotten fish. The paintings showed that people hunted deer, bison, and many other animals for food. They believed that the paintings were magic and gave the hunters good luck when they went on their hunts. As you know the cave artist didn't have watercolors so they had to make their own paints out of different elements that were in their environment. They used pigments for the red, brown and yellow ochers of iron and black from charcoal and manganese. They used sticks as paint brushes and sometimes blew paint on the rocks. On uneven rocks the painter's used that as an advantage to make the animals have muscle's and hollows in their bodies. They also used different techniques of shading.

 

Cave Paintings

The caves are located in southwestern France.



The Painters had to gather all of the materals to be able to create their paintings. They also had to crawl into the small caves and create their images. They had to find the perfect spot on the wall for the image so they could use the holes and cracks in the walls in the images.



The cave painters thought that painting pictures of the animals would
mean that there was more numbers on the hunts.Most of the time the
painters were hunters.They thought that it was magical when they painted on the walls. Some cave paintings could be up to 32,000 years old. The lascaux  caves have been shown to been painted 16,000 years ago.



Some Lacaux cave images.

   



The artist may have used some kind of reed or bristle brushes. With useing different instruments they were able to demonsstrate their diifferent knowlege for the animals that they hunted. They also made the pictures look 3-D by making the mucles fit into the holes in the cave walls.

   

The feeling of being a cave artist would have been very special. Because you would have been able to paint your thoughts and how you wanted the upcoming hunt to go and hopefully give the hunters good luck. They belives that when the painters created a new image that it would give all of the hunters good luck in there hunt.

Prehistory Blog Assignment

Prehistory Blog Assignment
After examining the Our Life in Perspective time line, Human Origins in Africa, class room notes and your life experiences place visuals with captions on your blog that define, give examples of and explain the following.

1. Key differences between humans and other species- Language and Abstract thought.

2. Lucy- (Australopithecines Vegetarains) Walked upright and had opposable thumbs, and primates. Lucy was the first full body fossil that was most like the modern humans.

3. Homo Habilis- Were known as the handy man, because they were the first tool makers, and they walked upright. They used their tools to cut meat and break open bones, with stone blades they could bucher animals.


4. Homo Erectus- Last homid from africa, Domesticated fire, and made clothes. They made more advances tools with stone blades that made jobs easier.


5. Homo Sapiens- 300,000 years ago,"Wise men" from homo erectus, Larger brains (Modern humans)

6. Neanderthals- Used advanced tools, burried dead, took care of sick, Language capable, Very like us. neanderthals have heavy slanted brows, well- devloped mucles and thick bones.

7. Cro-Magnon- 40,000 years ago, out of africa, took over europe, 1st art- jewelery, expressed ideas, social rank. Would plan their hunts, they would study their prey and stalk them.