The History of Visual Communication (College Work)

Cro-Magnons;
The Cro-Magnons is the most oldest form of homosapiens in the European district 40,000 years ago, multiplying themselves from the populations in the middle east (Which this race started). These homosapiens have lived from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic period in the Pleistocene epoch. The Upper Paleolithic period is originally called the Late Stone Age which does range from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, which only occurred in the boarders of Europe, Africa and Asia. Although the name "Upper Paleolithic" normally refers to the European district, as "The Stone Age" time refers to the African and Asian districts.

Artifacts that dwelled and survived during the turning Ice-ages and weathers, cast in clay or stone, these objects were preserved and picked out, showing the signs of aging. The most recognizable piece would be the cave paintings scribbled across the walls in deep caves. Others consist of Huts, Tusks and Pottery. The most extraordinary is the Calendar; Not so reliable now, but these people used to follow this tradition to the extent that this is how they managed their days, how they held festivals, just like our time.



Cave Paintings; 
These sorts of paintings have been around just as long as the Cro-Magnons. Yet, we don't know exactly of what they originally tell or represent. (It could be a menu!) All we can make out of these cave paintings, themselves, is that they tell stories, or triumphs that these people conceived in their travels. Most Cave paintings portray animals against humans; resulting in our findings, we can establish these people thought of hunting as a serious sport, it was life changing and a great experience. The reason we can make this out is through Visual Communication. Shamans were the most common to produce these paintings, retreating to the caves to create these images. It has been said, Cave Paintings them selves had been drawn whilst the artist is experiencing emotional pain or imbalance in their own current state. This could explain why these pieces of art are, in some what, deformed.


Petroglyphs;
These types of images are incited in rock, dug in by much harder rock such as flint to create these images and bodies of symbols or humans, which were started 12,000 or 10,000 years ago (give or take 2000 years), but still go in the modern age by tribes, in which, still exist. But that is not all, because these things are still carried on today, the decedents are possibly able to explain in much detail the meaning behind such an amazing, symbolic art work. Researchers have discovered that these Petrographs changed over time, because of the land, the sea has eroded away the inhabitants which once was there. There is also change in the economy, crisis after crisis, there's always changing "tides" in life. These qualities have been said to inspire these people to create these remarkable objects of art. Other theories scrap this idea, and comment that these images are a sign of how Shaman's them selves wanted to express the natural hallucinogens or their altered state of consciousness.




Geoglyphs;
Huge images imprinted into the ground, a stone cast or even arranging objects to represent a certain shape, greater then the length of 4 meters, these things can be captured or seen directly from a high peak or in the sky. Geoglyphs aren't becoming extremely rare, in fact can be seen in many countries still and remade to represent a certain city (Such as creating the name of the City in a certain manner, into the ground); Australia, South West America, Scandinavia, Iceland, Lappland and former Soviet Union in Russia. Few of the biggest Geoglyphs you can find is located in the Nazca Desert, the Geoglyph dubbed The Nazca Lines, which is more then just one, but loads of images of certain characters or animals. The strangest thing is that the Nazca people whom created these pieces (Between 200 BC and 600 AD) strangely had no other way to view their artwork from such height then on the ground. Made by simple equipment, these Nazca people were more advanced in the way to make these Geoglyphs during their time, research has been conducted its self, and were made in a 48 hour period. Yet, claimed to explain the reasons behind these huge objects of art, but still don't grasp the key factors of the reasons. So, Nazca's lines are still a mystery to many, and some people believe that is what it should be.