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People have been making art for at least 100,000 years. Prehistoric art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture. | People have been making art for at least 100,000 years. Prehistoric art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture. | ||
The term Prehistory refers to all of human history that precedes the invention of writing systems c. 3100 BCE and the keeping of written records, and it is an immensely long period of time, some ten million years according to current theories. For the purposes of an art history survey, we split our study of Prehistory into parts of the Stone Age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. | The term Prehistory refers to all of human history that precedes the invention of writing systems c. 3100 BCE and the keeping of written records, and it is an immensely long period of time, some ten million years according to current theories. For the purposes of an art history survey, we split our study of Prehistory into parts of the Stone Age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. | ||
=====The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making===== | |||
[https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32825 by Open Access] | |||
Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only produced essential goods for everyday use, most notably clothing, but also utilitarian objects as well as representative and luxury items. Prehistoric clothing and their role in identity creation for the individual and for the group are also addressed by means of archaeological finds from Stone the Iron Age in Central Europe. | |||
