Monday
24 September 2012
Continuity (Universal):
(Upper Paleolithic)
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Tools
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Solutrean (handles, sharp, thin)
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Magdalenian (bones)
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Art
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Cave painting
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Portable art
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Self decoration
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Beads
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Red ochre
- Religion
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Most controversial because it cannot
be proven
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Anthropomorphic
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Animal worship
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Proven through cave painting
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Burials
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Grave goods e.g. food, beads, animals
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Red ochre
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Possible to see signs of status in
graves today but not in the Paleolithic period because there was no hierarchy.
Change (unique to a time):
- Hunter/gatherer
- Nomadic lifestyle
The Stone Age as a Utopia
- Absence of major conflict
- Egalitarian society (equal society)
- Female power
- Men
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Hunting
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Brought in 30% of food
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Meat
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Periodically travelling
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Women
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Gathering
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Brought in 70% of food
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Gives women an economic advantage
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Grains, pulses, wild vegetables, wild
fruits, shell fish, fire wood
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Best food of the Stone Age: shell
fish
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Women always center of the community
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Childrearing, passing of cultural
tradition
Theories why women were more dominant in Paleolithic times:
Men had little contact with children and could therefore not
influence them as much as women could. Men were away while women were at home
taking care of the domestic responsibilities. Gender roles are determined by economic systems and society. In Paleolithic times there was a different economic system and society worked and thought differently to today.
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Venus of Willendorf (Germany): oldest human depiction
- Filippa