Art of pre- and early history: observation period

Anyone who approaches a field of knowledge first wants to know the basics : What is it about?

It is about art, whatever it is defined. Art of pre- and early history , i.e. the art that our ancestors left before the actual (written) historiography began.

In what period of time this knowledge has developed (in other words, for everyone who needs what you have learned later in the course of an apprenticeship: how much do I have to learn)?

When it comes to the pre- and early history of art, there is not much "material": the pre- and early history of art begins with human history; Human history begins with the Stone Age; The Stone Age begins at the time when the genus Homo is differentiated from the monkeys by using fire and tool. The first homo-products in Central Europe are 600,000 years old, which is why art science is exactly these “few years” the official viewing period of the original and early history of art.

Sounds like mighty matter, about which one should be informed as a connoisseur of art history ... but is actually a little more harmless. Specifically, the original and early history of art can only become when a work of art is there. The oldest caves known from Europe of anatomically modern humans are just 40,000 years old, the oldest work of art we know, even 43,000 years- makes 43,000 years of art in pre- and early history in Europe.

So it was definitely so far, so it is still taught at school today; But probably not long: February 2018 has uncovered an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology that Neanderthals in Europe created cave art more than 20,000 years before arriving anatomically modern people (which probably reached Europe around 40,000 years ago).

With the help of the uranium thoralium dating, the researchers had analyzed 60 samples of carbonate crusts on the pigments of paintings in three Spanish caves: the Cueva de la Pasiega in the northeast, the Maltravieso cave in the west and the Ardales cave in south.

These early paintings are red and sometimes black -colored, contain animal groups, dots and geometric signs, and positive and negative handprints and rock frays were also used in the design. "Like a bomb", the analysis of the found among experts has taken for another reason: The modern methods showed that paintings are at least 64,800 years old.

A discovery that human art suddenly started by a good 20,000 years earlier if we see the Neanderthals as humans. Are the Neanderthals among people? In any case - the Homo Neanderthalensis have developed in parallel to the anatomically modern homo sapiens and, like him, belong to the genus Homo, of which we (Homo sapiens) are now the only one left.

When it comes to recognition of the cave paintings about human art, it is much more important that Homo Neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens have developed in parallel from the African homo erectus, but not separated: Homo sapiens developed in Africa, Homo Neanderthalensis, he developed in Europe at times of South, Middle and Eastern Europe. And today you know that Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalensis sometimes lived closely side by side for over tens of thousands of years.

The DNA of the Neandertaler Erbgut has also been sequenced and indications that there was a river between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens multiple genre flow-if they have not yet sexually inhibited, compatible living beings, the assumption that they might pair, nor are they really far away.

The descendants of these "contacts with foreigners" do not ask whether these pretty eyes (breasts, penises) belong to our own tribe, so we Europeans all have more or less genes of a Neanderthal.

It has been known for quite a long time that the tribal history of humans is a bit more complicated than the early anthropologists assumed- there is a lot of "out of Europe" out-of-Africa theory , and it can be assumed that much more early people were messed up across, wherever they met. The first thing to do is to show racism and xenophobia that the people who somehow want to differentiate themselves have no idea about nothing.

If Europeans (today: people, because Europeans also increased over the world) have more or less genes of a Neanderthals in us, we could also include these cave paintings in human art history, which will be at least 64,800 years old.

The Germans in particular could do that, the Neandertal is at least in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia. One can probably look forward to the fact that the news of this groundbreaking discovery of esoteric German art scientists puts in ecstasy: Finally, the reason for the fact that art history in Germany has developed ...