STONE AGE MEDIUM

- Microliths and Retouched Bladelets.

- Stone (Main tool developed in this era.) - Painted Pebbles
- Art illustrates early human creativity through portable - Ground Stone Beads
objects, cave paintings, early sculpture and architecture. - Pierced Shells and Teeth
- Cro-Magnon (World’s first known artist.) - (Placed on handles & bones or wood to make saws,
axes, fish hooks, etc.
THREE PERIODS IN STONE AGE ART
1) PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (30,000–10,000 BCE) a.) Rock Painting
- Greek word: paleo- "old” + lithos- “stone” - Focuses oh humans (Hunting, dancing, Rituals)
HISTORY - Non-realistic & highly stylized representation.
1.1 Lower Paleolithic - Looked like stick-figures.
- Africa: created simple, sharp-edged stone tools. - ex. (Bhimbetka, San Bushman, Pre-Estuarine X-rays)
- Eurasia: appearance of sophisticated stone tools. b.) Cave Painting
(Teardrop-shaped hand axes) - ex. (Cave of hands- Pinturas river, Patagonia)
1.2 Middle Paleolithic c.) Sculpture
- Neanderthals inhabited Europe. - Relief Sculpture -attached to solid background
- Later on replaced by Homo sapien sapiens due to its - ex. Shigir Idols, Anthropomorphic figurine, & Gobekli Tepe
mental capacity to solve problems of human survival. d.) Architecture
1.3 Upper Paleolithic - ex. Gobekli Tepe-religious center or sanctuary
- 3,000 BCE in Australia, Africa, & Europe. 3) NEOLITHIC PERIOD (8,000- 3,000 BCE)
- Capacity to think & create representational analogies - Greek word: neo- "new” + lithos- “stone”
between one person, animal, or object. HISTORY
- Learned alliance for organized hunting. - Warmer Climate - Domesticated animals
MEDIUM - Ice Melted - Built Homes
• Stone, Bone, & Wood tools. - Plant Growth - Created communities
• Feathers, Moss, Fur, Finger Painting, Chewed Sticks, - Farming
Spray painting by mouth. MEDIUM
• Earth Pigments (Red & Yellow, Different Colored • Weapons to ornaments (For religious purpose).
Minerals, Black Charcoal.) • Smoother stone surface.
• Grinded into powder & mixed w/ water. • More portable and much effective.
ART • Ex. Chisel w/ small handles
ART
- Depictions of animals, hand prints, and geometric patterns.
a.) Rock Art
- Common animals in art (Cave lions, Woolly rhinoceroses,
- Painted in cave (People Swimming in Egypt)
& mammoths.) - Carved on rocks (Tarxien, South Temple)
a.) Small Sculptures - Wall Painting (Catal Hoyuk Wall Painting)
- Made of clay, bone, ivory, or stone. - Potter Painting (Chinese Neolithic Pottery)
- ex. (Lion Human & Woman from Willendorf) b.) Pottery
b.) Large Paintings - Used to store food & decorative element.
- ex. (Chauvet Cave, France/ Altamira, Spain/ Lascaux) - ex. (Chalcolithic Pottery, Persia and Samarra and Halaf
c.) Engravings Plates, Iraq)
- ex. (Two Bisons and Stone Lamp) c.) Sculpture
- Created mostly figure of humans.
2) MESOLITHIC PERIOD (10,000- 8,000 BCE) - ex. (Thinker of Cernavoda, Kneeling Bull with Vessel,
- Middle Stone Age Human Figurine)
HISTORY d.) Architecture
• Warm climate caused increase in plants & animals. - Megaliths (Large stones use to create monuments)
• Dog- first animal to be domesticated. - ex. (Stonehenge and Catal Hoyuk).
• Started to domesticate sheep, goat, and cattle.
• Became Herders & Farmers.
• Most lived in rock shelter & caves.
• Settled communities were found near coasts & river  
valleys.
• Fishing became popular & fish became an important
food item.