MDIA 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ishango Bone, Upper Paleolithic, Aurignacian
22 Dec 2016
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28,000 bc: bone tool, possibly a lunar calendar, calendars allow predictions of natural phenomena. Change of seasons, day and night, fertility cycles, menstruation, migration of animals, etc: cro-magnon: the earliest form of modern human in europe, associated with the. Their appearance c. 35,000 years ago marked the beginning of the upper paleolithic and the apparent decline and disappearance of. Neanderthal man; the group persisted at least into the neolithic period. 30,000 b. c: earliest known animal carving, found in germany. Reindeer engravings on antler baton, ca 10,000 bc. Cave paintings in altamira, spain, 34,000-15,000 bc. Lascaux, france cave paintings, ca 15,000 bc. Creature half human, half animal: possibly used for shamanic practices, cave painting survives in graffiti. 9000 bc: notches: the ishango bone has been considered the earliest wri6ng implement," and could be a numerical (tallies) or calendrical (lunar) nota6on. (fischer 2001, online memory may no longer be our own.
