Steinzeit

When we hear the term ancient, one of the first things that pop on our mind would be the “Stone Age”.  According to Wikipedia, Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with a sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 6000 BCE and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking.

The late years of the Old Stone Age of the Paleolithic Era had an attempt of naturalism in their arts. It’s amazing how they can create such art just by using dried, ground pigments and were blown through a hollowed-out bone or reed from a certain animal that is used in their spray painting. And in their cave paintings, they used their fingers and sticks in applying pigments.

Generally, back then they used animals as their subject matter and ever as their medium.

I am deeply overwhelmed by the fact that even though this era has almost nothing, like for example they do not have education and they do not know how to speak like us, they manage to survive. They were able to develop a way on how they’d communicate by drawing through their cave’s walls. They were able to discover a way on how to hunt animals so they could eat and the fact that they did not just draw on the rocks and walls just because they have nothing to do. You know why they did that? It’s because they were trying to pass over their generation on how they should live their life and how to survive.

As the Stone Age advanced from Paleolithic era to the Neolthic era a lot has changed. They were more stable and predictable. They also learned food production which makes their way of living easier than of the Paleothic periods.

These are considered as their remarkable contributions in the world of art and many people would be able to learn from it; that it’s not very convenient to have a life similar to the Stone Age. They’d reflect on the how they are very comfortable and some would even realize that their life is too comfortable enough and can survive every day that they would decide to help other people that are poor and having a hard time to live because they lack food, money and shelter.