Paleolithic Artifacts by Kristi Gross https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01 en-us 2020-08-28 19:24:41 UTC 2023-09-18 13:21:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Lascaux, Montignac, France kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/705969988 There are more than 1500 pictures of animals, from as far back as 17,000 years. The cave contains nearly 2,000 figures, which can be grouped into three main categories: animals, human figures, and abstract signs. Most of the major images have been painted onto the walls using mineral pigments, although some designs have also been incised into the stone.
 
]]> 2020-08-28 19:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/705969988 Cueva de El Castillo, Puente Viesgo, Spain kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/705984653 2020-08-28 19:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/705984653 Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707785829 "Early humans in East Africa used hammerstones to strike stone cores and produce sharp flakes. They used these stone tools for a variety of purposes, including extracting meat and bone marrow from large animals. " -Smithsonian]]> 2020-08-31 02:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707785829 Bose, Guangxi, China kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707789011  Early humans must have moved into the area right after the impact. They may have made the handaxes from rocks that were exposed when forests burned.- Smithsonian

]]> 2020-08-31 02:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707789011 Brassempouy, France kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707838566 The Venus of Brassempouy - la Dame de Brassempouy -  is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Paleolithic. It was discovered by Edouard Piette in a cave in Brassempouy, France in 1892. The sculpture is thought to have been made roughly 25,000 years ago, in the Gravettian culture. It is one of the earliest known representations of the human face.- Bradshaw Foundation]]> 2020-08-31 02:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707838566 Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707844545 Ostrich eggshell was first known to have been used as a medium for engraved portable art in southern Africa at Diepkloof Rockshelter and Klipdrift Shelter in South Africa and Apollo 11 cave in Namibia between 85-52,000 BCE]]> 2020-08-31 02:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707844545 Swabian Jura, Hohenstein, Germany kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707852085 Shown here is a fragment of a flute made from the hollow bones of an ancient vulture and dated to between 40,000 and 43,000 years-old. That makes it the oldest known musical instrument, and the earliest evidence for human creativity.]]> 2020-08-31 02:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707852085 Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707876561 The Japanese Paleolithic is unique in that it incorporates one of the earliest known sets of ground stone and polished stone tools in the world, although older ground stone tools have been discovered in Australia.[ The tools, which have been dated to around 30,000 BC]]> 2020-08-31 03:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707876561 Nottoway River, Virginia, USA kgross26 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707892262 Cactus Hill may be one of the oldest archaeological sites in the Americas. If proven to have been inhabited 16,000 to 20,000 years ago, it would provide supporting evidence for pre-Clovis occupation of the Americas. The site has yielded multiple levels of prehistoric inhabitance.]]> 2020-08-31 03:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/707892262 dholden18 https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/711822031 2020-09-01 14:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kgross26/yg7el181n3w8eb01/wish/711822031