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35,000 to 12,000 BCE
Hunting and gathering for food |
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12,000 to 8,000 BCE
Intensified gathering and domestication of the dog |
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from 8,000 BCE
Domestication of plants and animals and construction of dwellings |
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| an impure iron ore which is usually yellow and sometimes red. Prehistoric artists used it for painting. |
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| presents the profile of the subject but also a complete (and therefore most descriptive) view of its anatomy. |
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Paleolithic sculpture was both portable (i.e., able to be transported) and rock-cut, and, similar to Paleolithic painting, usually featured animal subjects.
Unlike Paleolithic painting, humans, namely female humans, regularly served as subjects. |
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| megalith/trilithon/lintel/post and lintel construction |
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| Giant rough-cut stones were used in Neolithic monumental architecture. Sometimes these megaliths were arranged in a three-stone construction called a trilithon. Two stones would serve as posts and one as a cap, or lintel. Known as post and lintel construction. |
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| Occasionally megaliths were placed in circles called a cromlech or henge, the most famous being Stonehenge in Britain. |
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| This perspective presents the humans with the head and legs in profile, while the torso shows a frontal view, offering the viewer the most "informative" picture possible. So remarkable was this development that it was used as the standard for the human form until the Golden Age of Greece (ca. 500 BCE) |
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| Bovine skulls. Found in Catal Huyuk. |
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