MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lascaux, Pastoralism, Animal Husbandry
20 Oct 2017
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Early humans were happiest (few wants, easily obtained resources) Food to eat, place to sleep, people around, etc. Very few possessions (no real sense of possession in the groups), worked much less, no material wants (as none really existed) Food could be gathered very efficiently and the rest of the time was spent enjoying themselves/resting. Big issues of interpretation: can not determine well how something was viewed based on sculptures/statues/drawings. Ex: whether several statues of women were made because they were powerful/priestesses/mother-goddesses or just viewed for sexual reasons. This is why language (mainly written) is so important. Early humans embellished on their stories in their drawings. Drawings of big game, people with large breasts/buttocks/genitalia, abstract symbols are unclear. They originally went into caves for protection from animals but as they went deeper and deeper, they began decorating. Music and language beginning to be created. Beginning of an immense development, which also caused the distinction between regional groups (different language systems)
