CFI-UF 101 Chapter : CFI Neolithic Art 1-2 Notes.docx

• School: New York University
• Department: Cultural Foundations I
• Course: CFI-UF 101
• Professor: Martin Reichert

Document Summary

Mesolithic: transitional phase between paleolithic and neolithic time. Ice age ended: england was separated from continental europe, spain and africa, reindeer migrated north, woolly mammoth was extinct, domestication of plants and animals, led to steady food supply, transition from hunters and gatherers -> to farmers. ***stone implements (tools, settlements, art, etc. : this occurred first in anatolia and mesopotamia. Anatolia and mesopotamia: where agriculture and livestock began, many native plants (ie. wheat and barley, many herd of animals (goats, sheep and pigs, lots of rain, farmers moved by the valley and deltas (near the water): tigris and. Euphrates river: new industries were formed due to sedentary life, weaving, metalworking, pottery, accounting (with clay tokens) Jericho (9000 bce: very advanced agriculture, on a plateau in the jordan river valley, mud-brick houses, round or oval stone foundations, roofs or branches, first stone protection to fight against nomads, 5 foot wall o rock-cut ditch.