3. • First skeleton remains of the common
ancestor of Homo sapiens from about 400,000
years ago found in Africa
• Oldest human remains from Omo Kibish,
Ethiopia from about 195,000 YA
• By 20,000 BC, humans were on every
continent except Antarctica
4. Some of the oldest
human artifacts
includes shells
thought to make a
necklace and incised
ochre with geometric
pattern (Blombos
Cave, South
Africa, 75,000 YA)
24. • They used rocks
and minerals
around them for
different colors
• These colors found
by Chuck Kritzon
near his California
home
http://www.primiti
veways.com/paint_
a_mammoth.html]
25. • They made brushes
from
sticks, bone, rock, f
ur, and hair
• Used incised rocks
to “erase” or make
highlights in stone
26. • They used reeds as
blow guns for the
first kind of spray
painting
27. • Cave artists erected
scaffolding to paint
images that were
difficult to get to
• Some of the
paintings are in
tight spaces over 10
feet high
28. • Prehistoric artists
paid attention to
composition and
responded to their
site
• Drew animals in
twisted perspective
with bodies in
profile and heads
frontal
• (Lascaux, 28,000 -
10,000 YA)
29.
30. • The cave artists
used repetition to
capture movement
• Edward
Muybridge, The
Attitudes of
Animals in
Motion, 1881
32. What happened to the prehistoric artists?
• End of ice age + Neolithic revolution around
12,000 YA
• Development of agriculture: goats, sheep,
pigs, cattle
• Domesticated farming
• Developing permanent settlements