How according to you were the Palaeolithic and Neolithic ages different from each other.mention at least three distinguishing features
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Reader question: “Can you tell me about the changes that took place in human development from the Paleolithic through the Neolithic periods, and the ways in which art was affected by those changes?”
This is an exciting question for me, because as someone who currently works every day with contemporary visual culture, I don’t get much of a chance to look this far back in history.
As always with questions asking me to look at broad time periods or geographies, I have to start with the disclaimer that this will be an incredibly brief overview of a very complex subject (as in…thousands of years worth of history), and with some definitions:
The Paleolithic era is a period from around 3 million to around 12,000 years ago.
The Neolithic era is a period from about 12,000 to around 2,000 years ago.
These dates vary depending on what part of the world you’re looking at, so see these as very broad ranges. Basically, the Paleolithic era is when humans first discovered stone tools, and the Neolithic era is when humans started farming.
I’ll go into more depth below with some examples so you can see what I’m talking about, but the most obvious difference in human development that affected art is that humans went from living a nomadic lifestyle, to developing agricultural societies and being able to settle in one place. This was the beginning of permanent architecture, including tombs and monuments. Tools also became more advanced, leading to new forms of art.