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Paleolithic Arts and the Evolution of Culture., 2002.
A look at the history of art by focusing on Paleolithic arts.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses prehistoric art in the context of two particular features: one, the most dominant forms of this art are "portable" graphics, suggesting that iconic art was mobilized throughout geographic areas, and second, that much of this artwork is intextricable from technological innovations in carving, etching, "pecking/chipping" and shaping various mediums such as bone, ivory, horns, antlers, and softer stones.
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Paleolithic Art, 1974.
This paper discusses Paleolithic Art, the insights it offers of the earliest cultures, and emphasizes the painting, drawing and sculpture.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 79.95
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"This paper will examine paleolithic art, and the insights it affords to man's earliest cultures, and to the basics of his own today.There is much to be learned from paleolithic art.There is an interesting history to the discovery of the cave paintings. Don Marcelino de Santinola discovered them. His findings were denied and judged false.... "
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The Paleolithic Diet, 2002.
Examines this diet which claims healthy living through ancestral nutrition.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This paper provides a critical assessment to the book "Neanderthin : Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body" by Ray Audette and the Paleolithic diet in general.
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Paleolithic Art, 1993.
A look at the cultural, temporal and religious significance of symbols and communication modes of the Ice Age peoples.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 47.95
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"The period of the late Ice Age hunter-gatherers rides the tag-end of the Paleolithic development of humankind. It is a period that, given the nuances of scientific interpretation and the influences of geography upon the Paleolithic peoples themselves, ended as long ago as 12,000 B. C. (Guilaine, 1991, P. 64) or as recently as 8,000 B. C. (Hawkes, 1976, p. 16), after which agricultural cultures took root in the prehistoric society, leading almost immediately (in relative terms compared with the millennia of slow development that had come before) to dramatic advances in technology, communication and the general raising of living standards for humankind. It was an interesting choice for late Paleolithic man to make - this switching from hunter-gatherer to farmer - for game was plentiful in the late Ice Age: "wandering" in the nomadic terms that we have come to associate..."
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Women In Prehistoric Art, 2002.
Discusses images of women in Paleolithic society.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 20 sources, $ 135.95
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Discusses images of women in Paleolithic society. How depictions of women in prehistoric art can determine the traditions and lifestyles of their society. Features of the images found in caves and grottoes and figurines. Women as symbols of fertility, as matriarchs who ruled over their domestic environment. Specific examples.
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"I. Introduction
Since the early discoveries of prehistoric art in the mid-19th century, scholars and archaeologists have sought to determine the functions and the significance of art in Paleolithic society. The uncovering of artistic images in caves and grottoes, along with figurines of various shapes and sizes, provides clues to the lives, culture, language and myths of prehistoric people. The emergence of the aesthetic perception of the prehistoric people from a strictly utilitarian lifestyle also offers evidence of how the human brain has developed over the centuries.
In this paper, the depictions of women in prehistoric art will be used to determine the traditions and lifestyles of prehistoric people in ..."
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Eras of Prehistory & Evolution, 1999.
Examines major features of evolution of Homo Sapiens during seven eras (from Lower Paleolithic to Iron Age).
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 127.95
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"Like all other creatures on earth hominids adapted to their environment through physiological change. But, at a certain point, they began to adapt by means of culture. They were, therefore, an entirely new type of creature--possessing capabilities that had not existed before. Rather than undergoing a few small adaptations that took place over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, these new creatures engaged in continuous adaptation via culture. Their cultures were not static over very long periods. To the extent that new circumstances required additional adaptations they were capable of making them and, to the extent that new adaptations proved superior to previous versions, they were capable of replacing the old with the new. The archaeological study of the prehistoric emergence of the cultural animal has led to the classification of.."
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Technology and the Environment, 2005.
An overview of the history of the relationship between technology and the environment from prehistory to the post-classical era.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at how technology, aqueducts and tidal mills helped to forge a historical growth in human technology that spans the world in its causation. By examining the Paleolithic examples of tool and blade cutting, it shows how one can realize how mankind slowly evolved technology to control water sources for agrarian uses in latter eras of development.
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"This study will examine the usage of Prehistoric, Classical era, and Post-Classical era examples of technology that helped mankind to use materials and survive in different environments. The Prehistoric usage of "scrapers" or blade technology; the Classical era usage of the Roman aqueduct; and the Post-Classical invention of the tidal mill all offer examples of technology that were extremely important to human advancement. By understanding how these technologies were used, one can analyze how these advances affected the environment in which they were created. In essence, technology played a key role in advancing the human race to greater levels of production, but had negative consequences that were often problematic for the environment. "
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"Blood Rites", 2005.
This paper reviews writer Barbara Ehrenreich's "Blood Rites:The Origins and History of the Passions of War", an account of war from its beginnings to today, with an emphasis on its emotional aspects.
1,860 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 59.95
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This paper explains that Barbara Ehrenreich in her book, "Blood Rites: The Origins and History of the Passions of War" traces war's origins back to Paleolithic man's struggle against predators on the African savanna. According to the book, war soon required a symmetrical form that resembled sacrificial rites, which gradually developed into a merger of religion with militarism that transformed battle into a religious rite. The author points out, in the closing chapter, that Ehrenreich pointedly cites the horrifying figure that there have been 160 wars since World War II, which took the lives of 22 million people. The paper contends that mankind is prey, who, through its own efforts, has become a predator; thereby, society continues to prey upon itself, not for sport, but from a residue of insecurity and blood lust that no society yet has managed to suppress.
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"The following chapters address the notion of the warrior elite. The author uses the example of General MacArthur's evocation of the long, gray line of West Pointers and Hitler's fantasy of a "race of Aryan god-men." However, the warrior elite has disappeared with the modern army, because when everyone has a gun, everyone is equal on the battlefield. The elite doesn't start wars anymore, since anyone can access the massive international arms market. Wars are free to everyone now. One example is the Russian war in Chechnya that was fought by special-forces soldiers."
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European Archeology, 2006.
An analysis of the origins and development of Europe's archeology.
1,651 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines how the prehistoric human background of Europe began tens of thousands of years ago in the latter part of the Stone Age. It looks at how ancient man, beginning roughly during the Upper Paleolithic Period, circa 32,000 B.C.E., evolved from a primitive and animal-like being into one that could construct and use tools, build shelters and create early forms of societal structures that eventually led to the rise of towns and cities along the rivers and coastlines of ancient Europe.
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"The Stone Age is usually divided into the Paleolithic ("Old Stone") and Neolithic "New Stone") Ages; the end of the Paleolithic and the beginning of the Neolithic is thus placed about ten to twelve thousand years ago. During the long Paleolithic Period, human beings roamed throughout Europe, searching for food as hunter-gatherers, and often migrated great distances in order to follow large game animals or locate more abundant sources of wild plants. At least as early as 50,000 years ago, the type of Paleolithic human beings known as Neanderthals, named from the remains found in the Neanderthal Valley in Germany, spread over Macedonia and then into Greece as far south as the Peloponnese peninsula."
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History of the Shoe, 2004.
A look at the history of the shoe from speculation on early shoe development to present-day sneaker moguls such as Nike and Adidas.
878 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explores the development of the shoe from its earliest evidence at end of the Paleolithic period around 10,000 BC. It examines how fashions and materials have changed over the years and how shoes have changed from a necessity to provide protection to an indication of class and a fashion item.
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"In the Middle Ages footwear fashion took to a long look. Men wore shoes that were elongated at the toe called pigaches or poulaines. Even suits of armor had laminated metal sabbotons with a chain to hold the extremely long toe erect. Eventually the pigaches style became so long that they made it difficult to walk and had to be attached to the knees in order to keep them upright. Men began to fill the pigaches with wool in order to have them keep their shape."
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Cave Painting and Graffiti, 2006.
A discussion on whether cave painting and graffiti can be considered art or a form of communication.
1,070 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper examines how, from the earliest of times, humankind has used words and symbols to display needs desires and necessities to both the gods and other humans and how, the prehistoric sketches of Paleolithic man and the current scrawls of modern man, while on the surface seem to be absolutely different, are inherently the same. In particular, it compares two works, a red and black bison on the ceiling at Altamira, Spain from 30,000 to 10,000 BC, and a terrier and tic-tac-toe board from the side of a building, New York City, late 1980s AD.
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"The composition of the painting, or lack thereof seems to be rather significant in prehistoric art. The lack of connection to the horizon, or anywhere else, denotes some type of religious meaning. Whether this entails simply a celebratory incantation for the fact that the animal lives to provide us with more food, or allows the magic in a shamanic spell to become more powerful against the animals, one has no knowledge. But the art of the caves does not appear to be simple art for art's sake. Christensen says, "It has been suggested that painting may have served as teaching material in which the spoken word, music, dance and masks were involved." (343) The time of Paleolithic man was wild and uncertain, but one could say the same about the current times."
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Public Art, 2002.
Shows how the definition of public art has evolved since the dawn of humankind.
2,184 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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As long as there has been art there has been public art. But this does not mean that public art has always meant the same thing to the people who made it or the community that it was made for. This paper examines four moments in history and four specific artworks as a way of examining how the function of art in public places has changed, as well as the ways in which it has not changed, over the centuries. This paper begins at a moment long before many people would place the beginnings of public art - with the Paleolithic drawings on the walls in French caves and ends with the works of Maya Lin. As each moment in time presents a different form of public art, no single, overriding definition of the term is offered here. Rather, each moment in history and each example of art requires its own definition of public art.
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"Some nineteenth-century scholars argued that the cave paintings should be seen as attempts to influence reality, that the images painted on cave walls (and this would perhaps have been especially true of the portrayals of animals) had a totemistic value. In other words, people painted animals to help hunters have better luck in the hunt, either in terms of capturing prey or in terms of surviving the hunt without injury. In a similar vein, other important types of Paleolithic that seem to celebrate female fertility, such as the Venus of Wallendorf, might have been used as totems that would help to ensure the continuing existence of the tribe itself."
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Prepatriarchal Representations of Female Figures, 2002.
An examination of archaeological discoveries of female figures representing cult fertility objects and ancient goddesses.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 47.95
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Archaeological discoveries of female figures representing cult fertility objects an ancient goddesses. Representations of Paleolithic, Neolithic periods. Greek and Roman depictions of goddesses. Feminist ideology & goddess imagery. Patriarchal ideology. Varied views of contemporary ecofeminism in deconstructing patriarchy.
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"Contemporary Ecofeminism
Introduction
Prepatriarchal Representations
The earliest interpretations of archaeological discoveries of female figures was that they represented cult fertility objects. However, by the 1970s, there were numerous interpretations of these figures, and others, as representing ancient goddesses.
These representations varied between civilizations and epochs in how they represented goddesses and stories that were told about them. In the Paleolithic period, the representations were the simplest. These are the female figurines that early archaeologists identified as Venus figurines (Eisler, 1987). They were often broad-hipped, pregnant, stylized, and sometimes were missing faces or..."
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Representations of Women in Art, 2002.
An examination of how depictions of women throughout history illustrate the roles of women in various groups.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 39.95
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Examines how depictions of women throughout history illustrate the roles of women in various groups. Focuses on Paleolithic, Egyptian & Indian art. Venus sculptures. Reductioin of female figure to its reproductive function. Lower status depicted in size of female figure. Female deities as representatives of power & protector of society, not just fertility objects.
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"In many cultures throughout history, depictions of women in art were far less common than representations of men. When women are shown in art the form of representation offers some clues as to the roles of women in the various groups. In the examples considered here two so-called Venus figures from Paleolithic art, two Egyptian "portraits" of women and girls of the highest class, and two goddess sculptures from India offer some insight into the ways women were perceived in these societies. They do not, however, offer more than a slight indication--especially in the Paleolithic and Indian examples--of the ways women functioned in everyday life, although it is possible to infer some things from these works of art.
Two Paleolithic sculptures of women are of the type that have been designated "Venus" figures because they are presumed to..."
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Ice Age Figurines, 2002.
This is a paper that explains what the function of the figurines from the ice age were, and who made them.
1,685 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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An examination of these figurines which have become symbolic representation of art form of the Paleolithic period. The paper shows that these figurines are also the portrayal of mother goddesses and a symbol of sexuality. The main conclusion archaeologists came to was that they represent the animistic or shaministic symbol of fertility and fecundity. It also has the function of depicting the ideology of the female form and their influence on the society.
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"When the ice age figurines were first discovered, archaeologists speculated its existence something that represent the transition period between the Neanderthals of the Middle Paleolithic and the Homo sapiens of the Upper Paleolithic period. The differences are quite marked in the expression of the figurines. For instance the first time in human archaeology the image of the sculpture are used as a means of communication."
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