REPORT Le grotte Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc is the French name of the Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is the most monumental and historical value cave in art circles in the world. This majestic cave is found by a team of three speleologist in 1994. It is 25 meters deep in the ground‚ length about 500 meters located in the Ardeche region of the southern France. When in 1998‚ the Franch archeologian Dr. Jean Clottes is the first research leader to leaded the research team in Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is very
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Between 20‚000 and 10‚000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic era‚ the Magdalenian culture expanded throughout Spain and France. About 17‚000 and 12‚000 years ago artistic skill rose and the Cro-Magnons began using paints and wall space. The Magdalenian cave painters were also skilled in tool making‚ therefore they provided themselves with painting tools to help them create marvelous art on the cave walls. I believe art is a way of expressing how you feel or a way of telling your own
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Cannibalism ( refer to illustration 1) Cannibalism is the act of humans eating flesh of other humans parts and some anthropologist‚ such as Tim White‚ suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period (based on the foundings in Neanderthal). After that‚ in the Early history‚ cannibalism is mentioned many times in this era and the literature. It is reported in the Bible during the siege of Samaria(2 Kings 6:25-30). Two women made a pact
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Cave Art and Paintings and Their Meaning Dr.Elaine Marchello Vsc 160D1 001 Nov 20 2011 Paintings are one of the earliest discovered traces of art‚ and people first found them on the relics of the Aurignacian time period. Those paintings were drawn on the cave walls and ceilings‚ probably 32‚000 years ago. There are a lot of conjectures about the meaning of cave paintings‚ some people believe that those pictures are used to communicate with others‚ but others ascribe a kind of
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viewers how one culture’s society was constructed and how it reflected issues such as religious ceremonies‚ military establishments‚ and economic systems. For several period‚ such as Neolithic‚ early Old Kingdom Egypt‚ and Akkad‚ it is crucial to look at their artworks in order to see what their society is about. The Neolithic Period was the stepping stone for more complexity in terms of techniques. When talking about this period‚ the first thing comes up to people’s mind is Stonehenge. Locates in Salisbury
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Evolution of ω-6: ω-3 Ratio Human beings evolved consuming a Paleolithic diet which contained small or approximately equal amounts of ω-6 to ω-3 PUFAs (the ratio is close to1). However‚ the current Western diet is very high in ω-6 FAs (the ratio is more than 15) This increase is because of many reasons; 1) The unselective recommendation to substitute ω-6 FAs for saturated fats to lower serum cholesterol concentrations. 2) Intake of ω-3 FAs is much lower today because of the decrease
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A. The Neolithic Revolution began around 9000 B.C.E. One of the first important developments of the period was the domestication of animals such as cattle‚ sheep‚ and pigs for food and labor. The arrival of agriculture also marked the beginning of this period. The transition into sedentary agriculture allowed more complex societies to form‚ eventually leading to the first civilizations. This period ended around 1000 B.C.E when these societies had reached a higher level of development. Agriculture
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The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is about how many different things contributed to the success of societies versus the destruction of other societies. The book starts out with the author‚ Jared Diamond‚ in New Guinea talking to a New Guinean politician named Yali. Yali asked Diamond "Why white men developed so much cargo…" Diamond was determined to seek an answer to Yali’s question. Diamond surrounds his answer on how History followed different courses for different people because of differences among
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The Oxford Dictionary defines perspective as “A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.” Everybody has different perspectives‚ but one of the more unique ones is from Jared Diamond. He created the book “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” which was later turned into a TV miniseries. In it‚ Diamond travels around the world looking for an answer to a question that was asked by a New Guinean. Eventually‚ he turned to history. He looked at different societies and analyzed what
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Changes of Ritual Practices in Neolithic Levant Throughout Mesopotamian history humans found ways of relating to the world through the environment and supernatural entities. When we study the relationship Mesopotamians had with their world‚ we see a symbolic system of communication that developed from ideology and belief systems. These symbolic systems of communication can be called “rituals”‚ which were created differently in different areas and time periods‚ and which were always changing.
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