I have decided that I need to brush up on my art history. When I was in college I had art history classes but there was so much info to cover that I pretty much just learned enough to pass a tests. I have for a while now committed myself to read my entire art history book. This is quite a huge task because this book weighs about 10 pounds, no joke. Also my reading comprehension is horrible so just reading it does me absolutely no good seeing as how I will just forget it anyway. So I have to read, take notes and at the same time I will attempt to put into my own words what I have read to get it even more into my brain or so I hope. Plus it is just something to put in my blog.

So no better place to start that with Prehistory, more specific prehistoric Europe.


Obviously the info from this time period is extremely speculative. There is no way that anyone can really know why people from this time period did the things they did or made the things they made.

Prehistory is pretty much lumped into a huge chunk of time that spans over thousands of years so the exact dates of thing really aren't that exact again just best guesses from people a lot smarter than me.

The Stone Age is pretty much what we call the period of thousands of years that we really don't know too much about because...well it was a long damn time ago.


It was given the name Stone Age because of the fact that so many of the items found from this time were made of stone like tools, weapons and figures. Such as the tools pictured above, though I don't know how exactly they know these are tools from the stone age when they look much like any rock that I have ever found in my yard.

The Stone age is then divided into two periods Paleolithic and Neolithic which quite simply means old stone and new stone.

On the next history of the day we shall learn all about the mind blowing world of the Paleolithic.