Marked Dolní Věstonice, Czechia

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Hunters of the mammoth steppe

Across the cold grasslands of Ice Age Europe and Siberia, people hunted mammoth and reindeer, sewed fitted clothes with bone needles and built huts from mammoth bones.

Date
About 34,000 to 14,000 years agoII · Our species and the Old Stone Age
Place
Dolní Věstonice, Czechia · Mezhyrich, Ukraine · Sungir, RussiaEurope, Asia
Laid out as
A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. ILife on the mammoth steppe
  2. IIMammoth-bone houses at Mezhyrich
  3. IIIThe burials at Sungir
  4. IVNeedles and clothes
  5. VFired clay at Dolní Věstonice

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Karel Absolon
  • Otto Bader

Objects

  • The Venus of Dolní Věstonice
  • Mammoth-ivory beads from Sungir
  • Bone needles

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

36,000 years ago to 16,000 years ago. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?