Week 2 Objects as history

17 January 2020

Periods of history are classified as :

☆Prehistoric
☆Protohistoric
☆And historicOne script can be used for different language.Eg:- Latin script, which covers all of Western Europe.

Pre history

☆Paleolithic (stone age)
☆Neolithic transition phase(new stone age)
☆Chalcolithic (Bronze age)

◇Paleolithic period ( 2.5 million years ago to 9600 BCE)

○Nomadic, hunter gatherer society
○Use of fire which later developed into different myths across different civilizations
○knapping
○tools made of other materials as well
Such as bones etc.But why are stone objects the only remains of these civilization?

Maybe because of the climate change or great floods that stuck that area.

○cave paintings in altamira,Spain and lascaux in France.

The discovery of fire, or, more precisely, the controlled use of fire, was one of mankind’s first great innovations. Fire allows us to produce light and heat, to cook plants and animals, to clear forests for planting, to heat-treat stone for making stone tools, to keep predator animals away, and to burn clay for ceramic objects. It has social purposes as well. Fires serve as gathering places, as beacons for those away from camp, and as spaces for special activities.

☆Venus of willendorf

◇Neolithic period( 11000 to 7500 bc)

□ Catalog huyuk

□ Tell Qaramel-
☆Copper nuggets may have been collected from the malachite source.

☆ornaments were found.

□Jericho> walls of Jericho, 20 layers found during excavation > a city that was constantly inhibited.History of the world in 100 objects book
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11,000 years (9000 BCE),almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of the Earth’s history.

☆Jericho skull

◇Chalcolithic period (8000 to 1500 bc)

☆Copper and malachite
☆Pastoral and hunting communities existed along with settlements
Malwa
☆Harrappa_ seals, pottery.
☆Jorwe- 200 settlements
☆Development of trade
☆Diamabad- mud walls for fortification, which indicates social hierarchy, also Mansory practice along with granaries which indicate surplus food.

One thing I have learnt is it makes more sense of the current world as history helps us to the comparison and learn from our past. It helps us know different cultures and different interesting art forms and cave paintings. It allows one to do critical thinking about present day problems.

I even had a debate about the wikipedia’s information. I really think there is a necessity to have a website on the net which provides trust worthy information and shouldn’t be fake.