Group 1 ART APPRECIATION

PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD
• In the history of art, Prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical
cultures.

• It is characterized by more advanced hunter-gathering, fishing and rudimentary forms

of cultivation.

• Prehistory is the time before written records around 900 000 years ago. ( Three Periods)
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Writing Human events

Records
History

Human civilization Fossils and artifacts

Humans make art. We do this for many reasons and with whatever technologies are available to us.
Pre-historic art refers artifacts made before there was a written record. Long before the written
languages were developed, people had become expert at creating forms that were both practical
and beautiful.
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CHARACTHERISTICS
Hunter- gathering Fishing

Emergence of ancient civilizations

Domestication of animals

Rudimentary forms Farming

The characteristics of prehistoric art would vary according to culture, beliefs, and the
individual artist. The characteristics would be in the materials used, it being charcoal,
ash, pigment, or carvings in stone or wood.
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PERIODS 2.58 million years ago

Paleolithic Period, or Old Stone Age, Ancient technological or cultural stage

characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. In the Paleolithic period early
humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used
basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild
animals.
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PERIODS 10,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE.

Mesolithic Period, also called Middle Stone Age ancient cultural stage that
existed between the Paleolithic, with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic, with its
polished stone was another innovation that occurred in some Mesolithic assemblage. The
people of this age live on hunting, fishing, and food gathering, later on they also
domesticated animals.
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PERIODS 10,000–4,500 BCE

Neolithic Period, also called New Stone Age, final stage of cultural evolution or
technological development among prehistoric humans. It was characterized by stone tools shaped by
polishing or grinding, dependence on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in permanent villages,
and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving. The Neolithic followed the Paleolithic Period,
or age of chipped-stone tools, and preceded the Bronze Age, or early period of metal tools.
 In the Old World the Neolithic was succeeded by the BRONZE AGE when
human societies learned to combine copper and tin to make bronze, which replace
stone for use as tools and weapons 3 300- 1200 BCE

The Bronze age follows on from Neolithic Period and is followed by the Iron Age.
 Prehistoric art, in particular, is very important because it gives us insight into the
development of the human mind and ways. Evidence of artistic thinking in hominids dates back
290,000 years ago; the Palaeolithic age.
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From
Group 1:

Galorio, Aileen
Gumera, Merrygres
Debalgue, Bhebie Jean
Pitogo, Eula Mayze
Azucenas, Abith
Geraldino, Jansel Grace