how art began
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Art History [1]
How Art Began (pages 14- 81) The Magic Art of Cavemen and Primitive People The old stone age First ancestors walked the earth on 2 feet around 2 million years ago Six hundred thousand years later the men begin using handmade tools Must think of stones and rocks as their uses Link the shape of the tools and to the function Start to chip away at rock to make them the shape and size they wanted Cave art Thirty-five thousand years ago Must have been preceded by thousands of years of slow growth Ice age ending at this time Reindeer and other herbivores were in the plains and were hunted by the ancestors of modern day lions and tigers and by humans Scientists named them based on certain characteristics Aurignacians Magdalenians- very gifted artists