Culture

Aboriginal Australians develop complex religious beliefs now referred to as “The Dreaming”

March 4, 1000 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The Dreaming is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs. It is used to represent Aboriginal concepts of Everywhen during which the land was inhabited by ancestral figures, often of heroic proportions or with supernatural abilities.

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Kebarian Culture thrives in the Levant

March 3, 1000 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

Kebarian culture was an archaeological culture in the eastern Mediterranean area (c. 18,000 to 12,500 BP). The Kebaran were a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who used microlithic tools.

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Early humans create paintings at Cave of Altamira in modern-day northern Spain

March 1, 1000 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

There are 18 caves in northern Spain which together represent the apogee of Upper Paleolithic cave art in Europe between 35,000 and 11,000 years ago.

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Venus of Galgenberg made of green serpentine 30,000 years ago.

Early humans of Austria create the Venus of Galgenberg

February 1, 1000 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The Venus of Galgenberg is one of the earliest examples of figurative art in Europe. The sculpture was discovered in 1988 close to Stratzing, Austria.

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Depiction of the Lady of Brassempouy from the Western Gravettian

Gravettian hunter-gatherers flourish in modern-day Europe

February 1, 1000 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The Gravettian was an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP. It is archaeologically the last European culture many consider unified.

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Rock paintings tradition begins in Bhimbetka rock shelters in India

February 1, 1000 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the prehistoric paleolithic and mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life on the Indian subcontinent and evidence of Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times.

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Aurignacian culture begins in Europe

January 20, 1000 | By Peter Schulte | Past Progress

The Aurignacian is an archaeological tradition of the Upper Palaeolithic. It is associated with the earliest modern humans in Europe and their migration from the Near East.

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Aboriginal Australians develop complex religious beliefs now referred to as “The Dreaming”

Kebarian Culture thrives in the Levant

Early humans create paintings at Cave of Altamira in modern-day northern Spain

Early humans of Austria create the Venus of Galgenberg

Gravettian hunter-gatherers flourish in modern-day Europe

Rock paintings tradition begins in Bhimbetka rock shelters in India

Aurignacian culture begins in Europe

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