ARTS Animal fats

WESTERN AND CLASSICAL ARTS Tree saps

TRADITIONS
CAVE ART
PREHISTORIC ART
Most of the cave paintings are found
Stone Age in France (Lascaux Caves) and Spain
(Altamira Cave)
Paleolithic Period
Mesolithic Period
Neolithic Period
MESOLITHIC
PALEOLITHIC
Middle Stone Age
From the word palaois means old 2,000 years
Old Stone Age humans developed cave paintings,
2-3 million years. engravings, and ceramics to reflect
Humans were hunter-gatherers their daily lives.
Nomads POTTERY
Kinds of Arts in this period

Portable Arts
Stationary Arts
PORTABLE ARTS
During this period, humans sculpted small
female figurines called THE VENUS
Archaeologists have suggested many
different ways of understanding as
significance

HAND PAINTINGS IN INDIA

PETROGLYPHS

STATIONARY ARTS
Paints were the combinations of:

Minerals
Burnt bone
Charcoal
PETROGLYPHS OF HORSES
Mixed with:
Water
Blood
 POTTERY
GRAVE 13 SKATEHOLM and MEGALITHIC
tomb SCANIA
some of the burials included grave
goods, tools, jewelry, shells, animal
and human figurine goods that
archaeologist suggest are evidence
of the emergence of social
satisfaction.

CHARACTERISTICS OF NEOLITHIC STYLE

NEOLITHIC - Mud bricks
- Stone walls
Also known as the New Stone Age.
- Naturally shaped stone roof
Spree of innovation
Pottery is considered to EVOLUTION OF TOMB IN NEOLITHIC PERIOD
be the diagnostic artifact of the DOLMENS are two or more stones
Neolithic. supporting a large one at the top
- Burial features
- Also called cromlechs(Brythonic origin)
- Settlements lead to building of
monumental stone architecture.
URBAN - These were mainly collective tombs
REVOLUTION - PASSAGE GRAVES
- GALLERY GRAVES

PAINTINGS

architecture: Megaliths