Art Hisotry Ch. 1
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Prehistoric Art Prehistory includes all of human existence before the emergence of writing, though long before that defining moment people were carving objects, painting images and creating shelters and other structures. The Stone Age The species called home sapiens appeared about 400,000 years ago and that the subspecies to which we belong, home sapiens sapiens, evolved as early as 120,000 years ago. Researchers divide the Stone Age into Paleolithic (?old stone?) and Neolithic (?new stone?) periods The Paleolithic Period is divided into three phases reflecting the relative position of objects found in the layers of excavation: Lower (the oldest), Middle, and Upper (the most recent) In some places archaeologists can identify a transitional, or Mesolithic (?middle stone?) period
