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The birth of imagination and San rock art (Eras (Palaeolithic era (Tools,…
The birth of imagination and San rock art
Eras
Palaeolithic era
Old stone age
Homo Sapiens developed from 30 000 BC
Basic tools such as broken stones and spears with fire hardened tips
Nomadic hunters lived in this era
2.6 million years ago to 12 000BC
Tools
400 000 BC - 100 000 BC
Stone tools were chipped from creating other stone tools
Rock, stone, quarts, ect.
Venus of Willendorf
Mesolithic era
12 000 BC - 4000 BC
Settled in caves (cave painting era)
Had a bigger range of tools
Tools
Bigger variety
Scrapers, knives, perforators, ect.
Neolithic era
Agriculture, housing, sculptures and structures
Ends at the Neolithic era
Tools
Pottery bowls, picks
Bronze age
Khoi San
San rock art
Used different color stones to do the drawings
Elongated figures
Distorted
Usually told a story
When they did rain dances, they would usually go into a trance. in their trance they would kill the animal and its blood and milk became the rain. the animals depicted in the art were usually hippopotamus or antelopes and they were sometimes surrounded by fish