Human Head In Paleolithic Sculpture

HUMAN HEAD IN PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE The typology of human head is subdivided in 5 phases: - from 2,500,000 to 750,000 years (Olduvaian) - from 750,000 to 400,000 years (Acheulean and ancient Clactonian) - from 400,000 to 200,000 years (Acheulean and middle Clactonian) - from 200,000 to 40,000 years (Acheulean and recent Clactonian, and Mousterian) - from 40,000 to 12,000 years (upper Paleolithic) Remark on the datings: the Olduvaian in East Africa begins 2.500.000 years ago (absolute dating), while in the South Europe the beginning has been dated approximately 1,000,000 of years. In consideration that the Africans and Europeans artefacts are practically equal, and with most insufficient evolution in 1,500,000 years, we consider " conventionally " the parity of Africa and Europe; and we indicate the end of the Olduvaian with the arising of the Clactonian, which at Isernia La Pineta (Italy) has been dated 736,000 years. This typology is constituted in the Olduvaian from the representation of the human head without neck . The representation of the head with body comes subsequently. In the upper Paleolithic sculptures of human feminine heads also appear. The human figure is present in Africa in the upper Paleolithic also in painting, conjonctly with zoomorphic figures, but it is not sure if it derives from the this typology. The representation of the human head, if devoid of a strong stylistic deformation, represents the man that has produced it, and allows to establish also the human species; like as example, to distinguish Homo sapiens neanderthalensis from Homo sapiens sapiens. More at http://www.museoorigini.it/pagina57.html