Introduction to Paleolithic Evidence

CHW3M

Carved Reindeer

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/DyfP6g6dRN6WdwdnbIVbPw

Size: H:3cm, W: 20.7cm, D:2.7cm

Material: mammoth tusk

Age: 13 000 years old

Interpretation

• “The artist has depicted the reindeer as they look in autumn. At this time of year the meat, skin and antlers are at their best for use as food, clothing and materials for making equipment. Showing the reindeer swimming may suggest migration or a moment when the animals were easy prey for their human hunters. Was this sculpture a means of communicating with the supernatural world or a charm to guarantee a successful hunt at the start of a bitterly cold Ice Age winter?”

British Museum BBC A History of the World, Swimming Reindeer, 2013, http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/DyfP6g6dRN6WdwdnbIVbPw (Feb. 2, 2013).

Interpretation

• “an account of the past reached by making inferences from sources; a single event can have multiple interpretations”

Peter Seixas and Tom Morton, The Big Six Historical Thinking

Concepts (Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd., 2013), glossary, 215.

Source

• “a trace (scrap left over from the past), relic, record, written account, oral testimony, archaeological artifact, or even DNA, that is being analyzed in the course of an historical inquiry”

Ibid.

Inference

• “conclusion based on reading between the lines of a source”

Ibid.

Context

• “the circumstances at the time of the creation of a source; the society and belief system in which the source was created as well as the historical events taking place at the time”

Ibid.

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• Why are some of the passages highlighted in red?– What is different about them?

PERSIAT

• Political

• Economic

• Religious

• Social (cultural)

• Intellectual

• Artistic

• Technological

Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Annual Report on the Operation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, 2010-11, Feb. 9, 2012, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/multi-report2011/part1.asp (Feb. 2, 2013).

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• Read pages 31-34 and record notes under PERSIAT headings or in chart form – You may not get something for each letter,

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