In its ancient period of development that lasted for thousands of centuries, man has gone through three stages.The first step was the stone age.After him, humanity stepped in bronze, and then in the iron age.The first stage was the longest stage.On its people over to make various weapons, pictures which were fragments of animal bones and sticks with sharp end.But turned out to be the most durable stone.It is the material dominated the devices of our ancestors.For this reason, this period is called the "stone age".
longest period in the development of mankind is divided by archaeologists into three stages.The first of these is the Old Stone Age (Paleolithic).The second - the Mesolithic.It is also called the Middle Stone Age.The third stage - the Neolithic.Scientists attribute it to the new Stone Age.
period of the Stone Age Paleolithic era lasted from the beginning of the birth of the human community to the tenth millennium BC.By assumption, the scientists were the first people in the tropics of Africa and South Asia.From there went their spread to other parts of the world.At this time, the man was an integral part of the world.He lived in a cave, creating nations involved in the collection of edible plants and hunted small game.Guns for fishing, made of solid rock (obsidana, quartzite and silicon), were not subjected to grinding and drilling.In the late Paleolithic period, developed fisheries.Man has learned to drill the bone, which began to produce the first engraving.
At the same time there is the complication of the art of hunting, housebuilding is born and begins to develop a new consumer lifestyle.Aging of the tribal system is a prerequisite for the fortress of the primitive community.Its structure is complicated.A person begins to develop speech and thinking that promotes the expansion of his intellectual horizons and enrich the spiritual world.It was in the late Paleolithic emerged and began to develop the art of the Stone Age.Man has learned to use the natural mineral paints, which have bright colors.He mastered the new ways that can handle soft stone and bone.It is these techniques have opened the possibility of transferring them to the outside world in the carvings and sculptures.Paleolithic art is surprisingly true transfer of reality and fidelity to nature.
Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic, started from the tenth and ended in the sixth millennium BC.This stage of human development characterized by the end of the Ice Age.The world around us has become similar to the modern.A man and his life underwent a dramatic change.Tribes collapsed.They were replaced by tribal communities, is headed by the senior and most experienced members.The man began to build their houses using wood and stone material, leaving the cave.An emerging sense of beauty is reflected in the original decoration, which were gold nuggets.
Big changes were made and the methods of manufacture of stone tools.There were sharp knives and sharpened arrows and spears.The Mesolithic period appeared rudiments of handicrafts, animal husbandry and agriculture.It has undergone drastic changes and the arts.Images applied to the exposed rocks, have come to represent a variety of hunting scenes and ritual ceremonies.The man, who is in the figures central to the Mesolithic, a simplified, sometimes even in the form of a sign.Paint a picture in black and red.
last third of the Stone Age - Neolithic lasted from the sixth to the third millennium BC.Man learned how to grind and polish the tools made of stone materials, engaged in cattle breeding and agriculture.There was pottery.From clay to produce various utensils and dishes.The growth and consolidation of multiple births was a prerequisite for the emergence of the tribes.
