CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lascaux, Venus Figurines, Niaux
30 Jan 2018
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Found in misliya cave site in israel. Used for: hunting, processing animal skins, scraping and cutting wide range of plants, scraping minerals, digging tubers. Modern humans out of africa: 220,000 bp. He needed care and feeding by others. Thinner, smaller body mass: less caloric requirements. More adaptive through culture and its technology. Found in 1858, in les ezies, dordogne. Symbols of: bond between giver and receiver, group membership, talisman, protection. 2936 ivory beads: estimatd 45 min. to make each. Form that conveys social and ideological meaning. Dates: 30,000 14,000 bp, found: pyrenees to russia. Bison, fragment of a spear thrower les ezies, france, 15,000 bp. Lion man, ivory, ulm museum, germany, 40,000 bp. Spear straightener, la madelaine rock shelter france, 12,500 bp. Marshack: lunar calendar? ( 9 marks change in shape, with moon"s phases over months) Arrival of humans to sulawesi island (by boat) ca. Chauvet: (cid:281)gallery of lions(cid:282) pursuing aurochs and bison.
